Speakers

Alexia Kalaitzi

Alexia Kalaitzi

Journalist

Alexia Kalaitzi is a journalist, based in Greece. She covers current affairs, with a focus on social and political topics for Greek and international media. She works for ERT television and "Kathimerini" newspaper and her reports have been published in Deutsche Welle, Guardian, Al Jazeera, VICE, and Voice of America among others. She has participated in cross-border investigative journalism projects and in 2021 she was selected as a fellow for the Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence of the Balkan Investigative Journalism Network (BIRN). She studied at the Department of Journalism and Media of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and completed the postgraduate program at the University of Macedonia on politics and economics in Southeast and Eastern Europe. In the summer of 2019, she trained in documentary production, attending the Journalism Video Workshop, Columbia University in New York, with a scholarship from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.