Markos Kounalakis is one of the most popular and richest Columnist who was born on December 1, 1956 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Markos Kounalakis (Greek: Μάρκος Κουναλάκης ; born December 1, 1956) is an American syndicated columnist, journalist, author, scholar, and the Second Gentleman of California after his wife, Eleni Kounalakis, the elected Lieutenant Governor, took office on January 7, 2019. Kounalakis writes a syndicated weekly foreign affairs column for The Miami Herald and McClatchy-Tribune News and is a frequent foreign affairs analyst for CBS News and CNN International. His 2018 National Society of Newspaper Columnists award stated that “Kounalakis’s world affairs columns not only offer strong prose and strong opinions, they offer an education.” In 2019, he won a SPJ Sunshine State Award for his foreign affairs commentary and criticism.
Kounalakis is president and publisher emeritus of the Washington Monthly, a magazine founded by Charles Peters in 1969. Along with Ray Suarez, he co-hosts the WorldAffairs podcast and syndicated radio program. He co-anchored with Peter Laufer the nationally syndicated weekly political program, Washington Monthly on the Radio.
Kounalakis was born in 1956 in San Francisco to Greek immigrants. His father, Antonios, was an underground guerrilla fighter against the Nazis on the island of Crete during World War II; He fought with Constantine Mitsotakis, who later became Prime Minister of Greece.
