a few words about myself
I am Thanos Dimadis, an American born in Greece and raised in Brussels, Belgium. Having lived in New York for seven years, I reside in Washington, D.C., as an Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University School of Political Management. With my career background in international journalism as a foreign correspondent from London, Brussels, New York, and Washington D.C. for the major broadcast media of Greece, I am currently the Executive Director of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents, the leading organization that serves the community of international correspondents in America. I am a distinguished Knight-Bagehot fellow from Columbia Journalism School with Master’s degrees in Media, Communications management, and International and European Relations from George Washington University, the City University of London, and the Panteion and Kapodistrian Universities of Athens.
I talk about the role of journalists in a world of misinformation and artificial intelligence, the rise of online technologies through the lens of freedom of the press, and the impact of democratic values declining in journalism. I've addressed international audiences from multiple stages, such as the World Trade Center, Roosevelt House, Nasdaq Bell ceremonies, the University Club, the Foreign Press Center of the State Department in New York City, and the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
As a journalist and correspondent in the US and Europe, I have interviewed prominent personalities in the public sphere, such as Microsoft’s CEO & President, Brad Smith, Unesco’s Assistant Director-General Jelassi Tawfik; the American author Fran Lebowitz; the philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, Google’s VP of News Richard Gingras, NBC’s Chuck Todd; the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso and many others.
I have contributed analyses for the reporting of international media outlets such as the New York Times, CGTN, and Voice of America. Columbia University, City University of London, and the US State Department's Annual Human Rights Report featured my work as a journalist and press freedom advocate.
