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Fivos Karzis is a journalist and an author.

His most recent book, The Gap in the Middle. The rise and fall of the middle class in

Greece and the world (Papadopoulos Editions, in Greek) was published in 2020.

Previously, he had authored a book on Greece’s modernisation politics Between two

facets of Greece (Polis, 2006).

During his career in journalism, spanning 30 years, he has anchored an influential

prime-time broadcast for more than two decades, in radio stations Flash961, City995

and Athens984 Municipal Radio (1991-2014). In other tenures he was a diplomatic

correspondent for the public TV ERT, foreign editor, as well as political

correspondent and columnist in ten different political and financial publications.

He was the spokesman of the Chairman of the Eurogroup during the Greek

Presidency of the EU (2003) and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the

European Law & Governance School. He is currently and Advisor to the CEO for

Communications at Eurobank.

He holds a B.A. in Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature from the University of

Athens (1988) and an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Reading (1991), the

latter on an Onassis Foundation scholarship.