Giorgos Christides

Giorgos Christides is a journalist specialising in cross-border investigative reporting. He contributes to international and Greek media including The Guardian, the BBC, ARD/NDR, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, openDemocracy and Solomon, and was the Greece correspondent for German news magazine Der Spiegel. His recent work focuses on the impact of AI on public policy, governance and fundamental rights. He is currently part of an IJ4EU-supported reporting collaboration examining the development of European AI policy and digital sovereignty.

He is the recipient of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism (2023), the IJ4EU Impact Award in three consecutive years (2022, 2023, 2024), the SIGMA Award for Data Journalism (2023) and the Dutch De Tegel Prize (2022), and was runner-up for the European Press Prize 2024 in the Migration category.

He is managing editor of Thessalonikeon Polis, a doctoral candidate and guest lecturer at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and a member of Greece's Foreign Press Association.