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| Name | Markos Kounalakis |
| First Name | Markos |
| Last Name | Kounalakis |
| Occupation | Columnist |
| Birthday | December 1 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco |
| Home Town | California |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Sagittarius |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Eleni Kounalakis (m. 2000) |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Markos Kounalakis Biography
Markos Kounalakis is one of the most popular and richest Columnist who was born on December 1, 1956 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Markos Kounalakis (Greek: Μάρκος Κουναλάκης ; born December 1, 1956) is an American syndicated columnist, journalist, author, scholar, and the Second Gentleman of California after his wife, Eleni Kounalakis, the elected Lieutenant Governor, took office on January 7, 2019. Kounalakis writes a syndicated weekly foreign affairs column for The Miami Herald and McClatchy-Tribune News and is a frequent foreign affairs analyst for CBS News and CNN International. His 2018 National Society of Newspaper Columnists award stated that “Kounalakis’s world affairs columns not only offer strong prose and strong opinions, they offer an education.” In 2019, he won a SPJ Sunshine State Award for his foreign affairs commentary and criticism.
Kounalakis is president and publisher emeritus of the Washington Monthly, a magazine founded by Charles Peters in 1969. Along with Ray Suarez, he co-hosts the WorldAffairs podcast and syndicated radio program. He co-anchored with Peter Laufer the nationally syndicated weekly political program, Washington Monthly on the Radio.
Kounalakis was born in 1956 in San Francisco to Greek immigrants. 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.
Markos Kounalakis Net Worth
Markos is one of the richest Columnist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Markos Kounalakis's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Columnist |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
Kounalakis worked as a foreign correspondent for NBC Radio and Mutual News in the USSR, based in Moscow from 1991-1992. He previously reported for Newsweek on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Albania. Newsweek also sent him to cover the early phase of the Yugoslav civil war. He went to Afghanistan and covered the “Holy War Without End” for The Los Angeles Times Magazine.
Kounalakis married Eleni Tsakopoulos in Istanbul in 2000. The couple has two sons, Neo and Eon. His wife served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary until 2013 and won the 2018 election for Lieutenant Governor of California, taking office in January 2019.
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In 1988-1989, 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 1995-1996, 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 Stockholm University, Sweden, where he studied International Relations and became a fluent Swedish speaker.
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Markos Kounalakis. You may help us to build the dating records for Markos Kounalakis!Kounalakis was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He has served on the Board of Visitors at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; Board of Advisors at Georgetown College and the Wilson Council at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He was the Vice Chairman of the Board of Advisors at the Southeast Europe Project at WWICS; he was a trustee of the World Affairs Council of Northern California; and formerly served as Chairman of Internews Network 2002–2004; Vice Chairman of the California State World Trade Commission 2001–2003; Board of Trustees of the Western Policy Center 2001–2005. In June 2003, he chaired a multinational reconstruction conference in Athens, Greece where Iraq’s media laws were drafted.
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
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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 in International Relations/Political Science at Central European University in 2016.
In 2002, The New York Times called him a “White Knight” for saving the venerable Washington Monthly magazine. Publisher Kounalakis and editor Paul Glastris have since rejuvenated the magazine, grown its readership, and increased its impact – making it a “progressive must-read” in Washington, D.C., according to James Carville. Its expose of former education secretary William Bennett’s gambling problem brought early attention to the Kounalakis/Glastris team.
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Markos Ranked on the list of most popular Columnist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Markos Kounalakis celebrates birthday on December 1 of every year.
Kounalakis is a political scientist specializing in international relations. His research focuses on the effects global media have on foreign policy. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Kounalakis utilizes theories on communications, neoclassical realism, soft power, and rising powers in his research. 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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