Alexis Papahelas

Alexis Papahelas   ( journalist,  editor)
Born	Αλέξης Παπαχελάς 1961  Athens,  Greece
Nationality	Greek
Alma mater	•  Athens College •  Bard College •  Columbia University
Member of	Trilateral Commission
US-educated Greek journalist and editor who has visited 5 Bilderberg meetings.  Editor-in-Chief In office April 2007 - Present Employer Kathimerini

Alexis Papahelas is a US-educated Greek journalist and editor who has visited 5 Bilderberg meetings. In 2015, he ranked 15th among the most influential Europeans in POLITICO magazine's list.

Education

Papahelas was born in Athens in March 1961. He attended Athens College and then went to the United States for tertiary studies. He majored in economics and history at Bard College and later received a Master's in Journalism and International Relations from Columbia University.

Career

Papahelas started his journalistic career in 1983, as the New York City correspondent for the daily Greek newspaper I Avgi, then for Kathimerini, the BBC Greek service and Mega Channel. He returned to Greece in 1998 and wrote for the newspaper To Vima as well as co-hosting the news program "Mavro Kouti " ("The Black Box") on Mega Channel for two years. In 2000, he launched the current affairs program "Oi Fakeloi " ("The Files") on Mega Channel which continued for seven years. He was also director of the news desk at Mega as well as the channel's political commentator.

In September 2006, Papahelas began writing for Kathimerini and in April 2007 became the newspaper's editor in chief. In October 2007, Papahelas began the news program "Oi Neoi Fakeloi" ("The New Folders") on Skai TV with Tasos Telloglou and Sofia Papaioannou.

interviews

Papahelas has interviewed several important political figures in Greece along with various international figures, among them the military commander of the Zapatista movement, Subcomandante Marcos, in his jungle headquarters in Mexico, Yasser Arafat in his headquarters in Ramallah, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, former UN Secretary General Kofi Atta Annan, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and financier George Soros. He has interviewed many prominent Greeks such as the politician Leonidas Kyrkos and former king Constantine.

Writings

In his first book, entitled "The rape of Greek democracy," Papahelas documented evidence of the relation between the CIA and the Greek colonels' group behind the junta. The cover of the book displayed a never-before published photograph of Giorgios Papadopoulos, which the coup later installed as dictator, on a hunting trip with Greek American CIA agents. a review wrote that "The picture that emerges from Papachelas’s reconstruction is one of a rapidly declining American ability to control Greek affairs."

In 2014, was granted the "John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service" from Bard College awarded annually to alumni of the college for "extraordinary contributions to the public interest".

He has contributed columns for The New York Times and the Guardian.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2002	30 May 2002	2 June 2002	US Virginia Chantilly Westfields Marriott	The 50th Bilderberg, held at Chantilly, Virginia.
Bilderberg/2008	5 June 2008	8 June 2008	US Virginia Chantilly	The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
Bilderberg/2009	14 May 2009	17 May 2009	Greece Vouliagmeni	The 57th Bilderberg
Bilderberg/2013	6 June 2013	9 June 2013	Watford UK	The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
Bilderberg/2017	1 June 2017	4 June 2017	US Virginia Chantilly	The 65th Bilderberg Meeting
Bilderberg/2024	30 May 2024	2 June 2024	Spain Madrid	The 70th Bilderberg Meeting
Brussels Forum/2006	2006	2006	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2017	23 March 2017	25 March 2017	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The overarching theme was "‘End of Complacency – Era of Action?"

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