Thanos Dimadis is an award-winning correspondent and a distinguished Knight-Bagehot Fellow of Columbia Journalism School. He has reported extensively on the European economic crisis, covering European institutions in Brussels, the White House, the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., and the United Nations in New York. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the USA (AFPC-USA) and is an adjunct lecturer at George Washington University's School of Political Management and the School of Journalism at the University of Florida. Dimadis has interviewed numerous prominent figures in global public discourse, including Brad Smith, President and CEO of Microsoft; Tawfik Jelassi, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information; María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly; CNN’s Fareed Zakaria; American author Fran Lebowitz; philosopher Yuval Noah Harari; former IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde; former European Commission President José Manuel Barroso; and Greece’s current Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis. From 2016 to 2019, during Greece’s leftist Syriza government, Dimadis encountered efforts by the government to hinder his reporting, prompting him to file a lawsuit against a former minister and his associates. The U.S. State Department later acknowledged his experience in its annual human rights report, recognizing him as a journalist “slandered by a former minister.” Since then, Dimadis has dedicated his career to press freedom advocacy. In support of this cause, he has delivered speeches on press freedom at Nasdaq’s Closing and Opening Bell Ceremonies in Times Square, the World Trade Center, Roosevelt House, and the University Club in New York. Dimadis was also honored by Columbia Journalism School with the prestigious Knight-Bagehot Fellowship. Dimadis holds four master’s degrees: in Political Management from George Washington University, in Media from City University of London, in Political Science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and in European Law and Policy from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens. He graduated with merit from Panteion University’s Department of Journalism and Mass Media, where he earned his bachelor’s degree. He also completed the Executive Education program “Leadership in the 21st Century” at Harvard Kennedy School, receiving a scholarship from the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. Additionally, he served on the board of the Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Association of New York and the U.S. Alumni Board of the Business School at City University of London. Dimadis is a U.S. citizen. He was born in Veroia, Greece, and raised in Brussels, Belgium, where he spent his entire childhood. He lived in New York for a decade and currently resides in Washington, D.C.