Markos Kounalakis Bio | Wiki
Markos Kounalakis is a noted American journalist and scholar. He is the second gentleman of California as the husband of lieutenant governor Eleni Kounalakis. Currently, he writes a syndicated weekly foreign affairs column for The Miami Herald and McClatchy-Tribune News. Also, he is a foreign affairs analyst for CBS News and CNN International.
Moreover, he co-hosts the WorldAffairs podcast and syndicated radio program along with Ray Suarez. Markos worked as co-anchor along with Peter Laufer on the nationally syndicated weekly political program, Washington Monthly on the Radio. In addition, he won an SPJ Sunshine State Award for his foreign affairs commentary and criticism in 2019.
Markos Kounalakis Age
He was born in San Francisco, California, in the United States on December 1, 1956. Markos is 66 years old.
Markos Kounalakis Height
He is a man of average stature standing at a height of 5 ft 8 in (Approx 1.73 m).
Markos Kounalakis Family
He was born to hardworking parents in San Francisco, California, in the United States. Markos holds American nationality. He is the son of Antonios Markos Kounalakis who was an underground guerrilla fighter against the Nazis on the island of Crete during World War II. His mother Vasiliki Rozakis was born in Chania, Crete, Greece. His parents moved to the USA as beneficiaries of the displaced person’s refugee program and were sponsored by the World Council of Churches.
Markos Kounalakis Wife
He is hitched to his lovely wife Eleni Tsakopoulos in Istanbul in 2000. Eleni worked as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary until 2013. In the 2018 election, she became Lieutenant Governor of California, taking office in January 2019. The duo are parents of two sons Neo and Eon.
Markos Kounalakis Education
He attained public education in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1978, he attained a bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. During his time, he worked at Dewey Market in San Francisco’s Forest Hill neighborhood, and at Tony’s Olympic Bayshore gas station as well as in auto repair in San Francisco.
To help with his tuition costs and rent, he drove Humphrey Go-Bart buses. Further, he graduated with his master’s in journalism from Columbia University in 1988 and received a Ph.D. in international relations/political science from the Central European University in 2016.
Markos Kounalakis CBS News
Currently, he writes a syndicated weekly foreign affairs column for The Miami Herald and McClatchy-Tribune News. Also, he is a foreign affairs analyst for CBS News and CNN International. Moreover, he co-hosts the WorldAffairs podcast and syndicated radio program along with Ray Suarez.
From 1991 to 1992, he worked as a foreign correspondent for NBC Radio and Mutual News in the USSR, based in Moscow. Previously, he was a reporter for Newsweek on the fall of the Berlin Wall and also the end of the Cold War in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Albania. Further, he covered the early phases of Yugoslavia’s civil war and went to Afghanistan with the Soviets to cover the rise of the Mujahedin.
In 2017, he was appointed to the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs by President Barack Obama. In addition, Markos worked as co-anchor along with Peter Laufer on the nationally syndicated weekly political program, Washington Monthly on the Radio.
Some of Markos’s colleagues at CBS News include:
Lauren Winfrey – News Anchor and MSJ
Elise Preston – Correspondent
Alina Cho – Sunday Morning Contributor
Neeraj Khemlani – Co-President
Danya Bacchus – Correspondent
Steven Portnoy – White House Correspondent
Cami McCormick – Correspondent
Christina Ruffini – Correspondent
Markos Kounalakis Salary
He receives decent pay as a column writer at The Miami Herald and McClatchy-Tribune News, foreign affairs analyst for CBS News and CNN International as well as podcast host. Markos’s salary is $110,500 per annum.
Markos Kounalakis Net Worth
Markos is a noted American journalist and scholar with an estimated net worth of $8 Million.
Where Is Markos Kounalakis
Currently, he writes a syndicated weekly foreign affairs column for The Miami Herald and McClatchy-Tribune News. Also, he is a foreign affairs analyst for CBS News and CNN International. Moreover, he co-hosts the WorldAffairs podcast and syndicated radio program along with Ray Suarez. Markos worked as co-anchor along with Peter Laufer on the nationally syndicated weekly political program, Washington Monthly on the Radio
How Old Is Markos Kounalakis
Markos is 66 years old born in San Francisco, California, in the United States on December 1, 1956.
Is Markos Kounalakis Married
He is hitched to his lovely wife Eleni Tsakopoulos in Istanbul in 2000. Eleni worked as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary until 2013. In the 2018 election, she became Lieutenant Governor of California, taking office in January 2019. The duo are parents of two sons Neo and Eon.