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Niko Efstathiou is a journalist, author and communications advisor as well as the presenter of the Alternative Stage at TEDxAthens. He is currently a journalism fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford University, and was previously Editorial Director at REBORRN as well as contributing editor for Kathimerini English Edition. Niko was the Managing Editor for LiFO and a journalist and media strategist for Kathimerini, as well as a Communications Advisor for the World Health Organization in the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, he was selected as a Google News Lab Fellow working on the intersection of video citizen journalism and human rights documentation in Mountain View and New York CIty. He is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia\u2019s School of International and Public Affairs and he has written the best-selling biography of Pyrros Dimas, Greece\u2019s most decorated Olympic athlete. 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