Speakers

Giorgos Christides

Journalist

Giorgos Christides is a Greece based investigative journalist focusing on migration. He is a regular contributor to German public broadcaster NDR/ARD, and his work has also appeared in The Guardian, the BBC, Al Jazeera, Hyphen, Solomon and a number of other international and Greek media. He was a reporter with German news magazine Der Spiegel from 2012 until 2023. As part of cross-border, collaborative media investigations, he was a runner-up for the 2024 European Press Prize in the migration category. He has received the Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) prize (2023, 2022), the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism (2023), the SIGMA award for data journalism (2023) and the De Tegel award (2022). He also received the European Parliament Journalism Award in the print media category in 2009. He is a board member of Greece’s Foreign Press Association (FPA).