Public Affairs and Media

Dimitri Mitropoulos was born in Athens. He is a graduate of the Moraitis School. He studied Law at the University of Athens and read for an MA in Modern Greek Studies at King’s College London. In 1998-99, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, the only Greek journalist ever to hold that distinction.

Mitropoulos covered Greek and international politics for the leading Sunday newspaper To Vima from 1986 to 2000. His foreign assignments at the time include elections in Russia (1995) and Britain (1997)) as well as reporting from Cuba and China.

In 2000 he became chief political columnist and writer at large for the leading Greek daily paper TA NEA, commenting on Greek and European politics most notably the Eurozone crisis. He was also a radio morning host and a frequent commentator in prime-time television.

In 2014 Mitropoulos became Executive Editor of TA NEA, a position he held for three years, leading the newspaper through three elections and one referendum in Greece, the capital controls on Greek banks, Brexit and the 2016 coup d’etat in Turkey.

In early 2017 Mitropoulos took a pause from media and moved out of Greece becoming a fulltime strategic consultant on politics, business and finance in Europe and beyond, based in London. He returned to Athens to serve as Head of EU Affairs (Sherpa) to the Greek Prime Minister from July 2019 until March 2020. He was Special Advisor to the PM until August 2020.

The author of three books, Mitropoulos taught “Newsgathering as Negotiation” at the Media Department of Athens University for ten years starting in 2002, a course based on a paper he had published at Harvard’s Negotiation Journal in 1999.