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Dimitris Kontogiannis

Dimitris Kontogiannis holds a Ph.D. in Macroeconomics and International Finance from the City University of New York; he is a journalist, a producer of a show about Greek expatriates on the Voice of Greece and a producer of a financial broadcast on ERT’s First Programme. Previously, he had worked with Reuters, ‘’Eleftherotypia’’ newspaper, and was a columnist for the English edition of ‘’Kathimerini’’ newspaper. He has been an associate of ‘’the Financial Times’’ for years and has written for several magazines, including ‘’Euromoney’’. He has also commented on Greek financial affairs on foreign networks such as BBC, BBC Radio, German ZDF, and the Chinese channel CCTV, among others. He has taught economics at American universities, like Baruch College and Hunter College.
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Dr. S.Mezitis and I.Remediakis about the ‘Birthright Hellas’ summer program on “Our Global Voice” | 29 May 2024
Dr. Spyros Mezitis, President of the Federation of Hellenic Medical Societies of North America, and Ioannis Remediakis, President of the Hellenic Cultural Center of the Southwest (HCC-SW)m spoke about ‘’Birthright Hellas’, a summer program aimed at American citizens of Greek descent from 18 to 28 ye...
Aikaterini Plesia-Efstathopoulou, MEP candidate with PASOK, on “Our Global Voice” | 23 May 2024
Aikaterini Plesia-Efstathopoulou, MEP candidate with PASOK- KINAL was born in Thessaloniki, and has been living in London since 2017. She spoke about her personal journey and her goals such as the green transition on a social context basis, the convergence of the Regions in EU and support for young...
Giorgos Martiou, MEP candidate with SYRIZA, on “Our Global Voice” | 22 May 2024
Giorgos Martiou, who resides and works in Sweden since 2017, talks about his personal journey, compares the education sysatems of Sweden and Greece and points out that Justice is facing issues in Greece on the show "Our Global Voice" with Petros Diplas and Dimitris Kontogiannis.Mr. Martiou, originally...
Maria Kritza from Malawi, Africa on “Our Global Voice” | 21 May 2024
Maria Giannaki-Kritza, who arrived from Australia with her family at the age of 9 around the mid-1970s in the Republic of Malawi, talks about her personal history and that of the Greeks in the African country from the beginning of the 20th century, their preoccupation initially with fishing in the ...
S.Siokos from Astarte Capital Partners on “Our Global Voice” | 16 May 2024
Stavros Siokos, Managing Partner and Co-founder at 'Astarte Capital Partners', a London-based real assets management firm focused on sustainable real asset sectors, with a presence in Sydney and Toronto, was a guest on this episode of "Our Global Voice" with Petros Diplas and Dimitris Kontogiannis....
D. Katsaounis from Canada, MEP candidate with ND, on “Our Global Voice”| 15 May 2024
Dimitris Katsaounis from Montreal, Canada, candidate with New Democracy for the 2024 European Parliament election, shared his personal history, including his postgraduate studies in the USA, his professional steps in the financial field in Greece, the economic crisis that forced him to immigrate in...
Yannis Stavrinou from Marseilles about Napoleon’s relationship with Greece | 14.05.2024
Yannis Stavrinou, originally from Cyprus, who went to Marseilles in June 1974, i.e. a month before the Turkish invasion of Megalonisos, talks about the Greek history of the French city founded by Phocaeans and the origin of Napoleon Bonaparte from the Stefanopoulos-Comninos family on Voice of Greece...
Metropolitan Daniel of Accra on “Our Global Voice” | 07 May 2024
His Eminence Metropolitan Daniel of Ghana spoke about the celebration of Easter by the country's small Greek community and Ghana’s Orthodox Christians, the unusual history of the Orthodox Church in the African country that began in 1956, the Greek Orthodox communities of Ethiopia, Mozambique and Malawi i...
G. Demirtzoglou talks about the Holy Week in Constantinople on “Our Global Voice” | 04 May 2024
Mr Giannis Demirtzoglou, director of the Zografeio Lyceum in Istanbul, referred to the effort being made to preserve the customs and traditions of the United Kingdom. week and not only in the City of 20 million. Today, it has only 2,000 Greeks compared to 230,000 in 1924 on "Our Global Voice" with Dimitris...
Karin Abeles talks about her adoption on “Our Global Voice”| 2 May 2024
Karin Maria Abeles, one of the 4,000 Greek children adopted by parents outside Greece in the decades after World War 2, recounts her personal story that had a happy ending on "Our Global Voice" with Dimitris Kontogiannis. Karin Abeles, who was born here in December 1962, was left at the front door...
M. Kazamias talks about Easter in Tanzania on “Our Global Voice” | 30 Apr. 2024
Michalis Kazamias, a 4th generation Greek businessman from Tanzania, describes from Dar es Salaam how they used to cross the UK. Week there decades ago when there were many more Greeks and how today there are many fewer on "Our Global Voice" with Petros Diplas and Dimitris Kontogiannis. "Our...
D.Siokis, President of Society of Kastorians “Omonoia” New York, on “Our Global Voice” | 29 Apr. 2024
Dimos Siokis, president of the Society of Kastorians "Omonoia" New York, which was founded in 1910, spoke about the recent donation of a brand new ambulance to the Hellenic Red Cross in Kastoria on the radio of the Voice of Greece and on "Our Global Voice" with Dimitris Kontogiannis. Mr Siokis also...
K. Konstantinou from South Africa on “Our Global Voice” | 25 Apr. 2024
Konstantinos Konstantinou, 2nd generation expatriate from Johannesburg, S. Africa. He is a native of Cyprus, founder of the Association for Regeneration, Art and Culture, he referred to the history of his family, the Greek community, education in South Africa over time, and in the many and varied activities...
George Serafeim’s 5,000 km road trip in 5 days | Our Global Voice | 22 Apr. 2024
George Seraphim, who immigrated to Canada from Greece a few years ago, talks about the non-stop trek of 5,000 km in 5 days from the city of Winnipeg in Canada to Dallas, Texas, where he went to see with his family the solar eclipse, and their return to Canada on "Our Global Voice" on the radio of the...
Professor of Computer Science Kostas Daniilidis from Pennsylvania on ”Our Global Voice” | 18 Apr. 2024
Kostas Daniilidis, professor of computer science and holder of the Ruth Yalom Stone Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, talked about his personal history and that of his family, about the education system of Greece, his experience from the German University of Karlsruhe and American higher education,...
A.Tamis on the history of the Greek community of Shanghai on ”Our Global Voice” | 29.01.2024
Professor of Greek history, Anastasios Tamis, from Melbourne, Australia, continued the journey into the unknown history of the Greeks of China, while talking about the history of the Greek community in Shanghai, China - the elite of the Greek Diaspora - until 1949 on the show "Our Global Voice" with...
Stephanie Pazoles talks about her adoption on ”Our Global Voice” | 25.01.2024
Stephanie Pazoles, who was adopted in the 1950s at the age of 13 months by Greek-American parents living in the U.S. state of Utah, spoke about the story of her adoption on the show "Our Global Voice" with Petros Diplas and Dimitris Kontogiannis. Ms. Pazoles was 15 days old when she was found in...
Former Vietnamese Ambassador to Greece, Mr. Vu Binh, on ”Our Global Voice” | 23.01.2024
Mr. Vu Binh, the first ambassador of Vietnam to Greece for the period 2010-2014 and the one who created the Vietnam embassy in Athens spoke on "Our Global Voice" with Petros Diplas and Dimitris Kontogiannis. Mr. Vou referred to a conversation he had with a German passenger on the plane that brought...