Nikos Konstandaras

Nikos Konstandaras became a contributing opinion writer for The International New York Times in the fall of 2013. Mr. Konstandaras is managing editor and a columnist of the Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini. He is also the founding editor of Kathimerini’s English edition, which, since 1998 has been published as a supplement to the International New York Times (formerly the International Herald Tribune) in Greece and Cyprus. He was also the editor of Athens Plus, an English-language weekly published by Kathimerini and the Herald Tribune.

Mr. Konstandaras was born in South Africa in 1961, and is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, where he received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in ancient Greek. He edited, with Johan van Wyk and Pieter Conradie, an anthology of South African poetry, published in 1988. He has also lived in Mozambique.

Mr. Konstandaras worked as a correspondent for The Associated Press in Athens from 1989 to 1997 before joining Kathimerini and has reported from many countries in the region.

He is married and has three children.