Markos Kounalakis

Markos Kounalakis, PhD is a Greek-American journalist, author and scholar. Kounalakis is the president and publisher emeritus of the Washington Monthly, a magazine founded by Charles Peters in 1969. Kounalakis co-anchored the nationally syndicated weekly political program, Washington Monthly on the Radio. He is currently a senior fellow at the Center for Media, Data and Society at Central European University and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. He writes a regular foreign affairs column for The Sacramento Bee and McClatchy-Tribune News. He is currently working on a book on the geopolitcs of news networks.

Kounalakis was born in San Francisco to refugee parents from Greece. His father, Antonios, was an underground guerrilla fighter against the Nazis on the island of Crete during World War II. He fought with Constantine Mitsotakis, who later became Prime Minister of Greece. Like his father, Kounalakis was a blue-collar construction worker who maintains his Class A heavy equipment truck drivers license.

Kounalakis is a political scientist specialising in international relations. His research focuses on the effects global media have on foreign policy. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Kounalakis utilises theories on communications, neoclassical realism, soft power, and rising powers in his research. Kounalakis received a public education in the San Francisco Bay Area and earned his bachelor's degree in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. He received his MSc in Journalism from Columbia University in 1988. Kounalakis earned a PhD, Summa Cum Laude, in International Relations/Political Science at Central European University in 2016. In 1988-89, Kounalakis was a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in Europe, attending the Bundesakademie für öffentliche Verwaltung in Bonn, Germany in 1988 and the École Nationale d'Administration in Paris, France in 1989. In 1995-96, Kounalakis was an International Journalism Graduate Fellow at the University of Southern California and El Colegio de México in Mexico City. As an international journalism graduate fellow, he also spent time in Guatemala (1995) and Cuba (1996). In the early 1980s he attended the International Graduate School at , Sweden, where he studied International Relations and became a fluent Swedish speaker. Between 2003 and 2009, Kounalakis was a regular Hoover Institution Media Fellow and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University since September 2013. Since 2010, he has been a senior research fellow at the Center for Media, Data and Society at Central European University.

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