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Markos Kounalakis was born on 1 December, 1956 in San Francisco, California, U.S., is an American journalist (born 1956). Discover Markos Kounalakis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 1 December, 1956
Birthday 1 December
Birthplace San Francisco, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1956

Markos Kounalakis (Μάρκος Κουναλάκης; born December 1, 1956) is an American syndicated journalist and scholar who is the second gentleman of California as the husband of lieutenant governor Eleni Kounalakis.

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.

Kounalakis was born on December 1, 1956, in San Francisco to Greek immigrants.

His mother Vasiliki Rozakis, was born in Chania, Crete, Greece.

His father, Antonios Markos Kounalakis, 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.

Antonios and Vasiliki arrived in the United States as beneficiaries of the displaced persons refugee program and sponsored by the World Council of Churches.

1969

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.

1978

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.

Kounalakis worked his way through college working at Dewey Market in San Francisco's Forest Hill neighborhood, and at Tony's Olympic Bayshore gas station and auto repair in San Francisco's Visitation Valley neighborhood.

On the UC Berkeley campus, he drove Humphrey Go-Bart buses to help cover tuition costs and rent.

1980

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.

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.

1988

He received his MSc in journalism from Columbia University in 1988.

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.

1995

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 1995, Kounalakis became the executive producer for Visible Interactive, a start-up technology company that used Newton handheld devices for immersive interpretive experiences in venues like the Smithsonian Institution museums.

He later became the executive communications strategist at Silicon Graphics.

2002

In 2002, The New York Times called him a "White Knight" for saving 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.

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; and board of trustees of the Western Policy Center from 2001 to 2005.

2003

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.

In June 2003, he chaired a multinational reconstruction conference in Athens, Greece where Iraq's media laws were drafted.

2010

Since 2010, he has been a Senior Fellow Markos Kounalakis | CMDS at the Center for Media, Data and Society at Central European University.

2016

Kounalakis earned a PhD in international relations/political science from the Central European University in 2016.

2017

In 2017, he became a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oregon-UNESCO Crossings Institute for Intercultural Dialogue and Conflict Sensitive Reporting.

In 2017, Kounalakis identified early that fentanyl was a cheap and lethal street drug and cutting agent emanating from China, strategically targeting vulnerable American citizens.

2018

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."

2019

In 2019, he won a SPJ Sunshine State Award for his foreign affairs commentary and criticism.

Kounalakis is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Center for Media, Data, and Society at Central European University.

2020

Kounalakis' last syndicated weekly column appeared in the Miami Herald on November 6, 2020.

He has been a trustee of The Asia Foundation since 2020 and joined the advisory board of the Council for International Relations in Greece in 2021.

Kounalakis and his wife, Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, have established two chairs in politics and democracy at Georgetown University and Stanford University Kounalakis and his wife also donated land to a foundation that is being used establish a Hillsdale College campus in Placer County, California.