Holder of HEFAT Certificate, 2016 NCTJ awards nominee, plus, an MA in Journalism. Over 7 years of experience in production and writing. Currently working in a newsroom setting. Experience in financial news, UK, US politics and Middle East political affairs. More than 2000 high-profile international contributors in my agenda, i.e including politicians, subject experts and specialist journalists.
Katerina has worked for well-known media organisations, such as the BBC, Associated Press, TRT World, Sky News, Volant Media (Afghanistan and Iran International TV), Parikiaki Ltd., Finbuzz and London Greek Radio. She has also contributed for Metro, Mail Online, Efsyn.gr, CBC Azerbaijan, Al Arabiya, Mega TV, and One TV Greece.
While working as a Producer for Volant Media, Katerina has covered extensively the war in Ukraine and has conducted interviews with members of the Ukrainian parliament, such as Yevheniya Kravchuk (Deputy Chair of the 'Servant of The People' party), Yulia Klymenko (Head of ‘Holos' faction in the Ukrainian parliament (opposition party)) and Halyna Yanchenko (Secretary of the Office of the National Investment Council of Ukraine). She has also arranged interviews with Naftali Bennett (Former Prime Minister of Israel); Heidi Hautala (Vice-President of the European Parliament); Danny Yatom (the former Mossad Director); Joel Rubin (former Obama-Biden Deputy Secretary of State); Nabil Shaath (the former Deputy Prime Minister of Palestine and former Deputy Prime Minister); Akhmed Zakayev (Prime Minister of the unrecognised Chechen Republic of Ichkeria); Giulio Terzi (Former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs).
Last but not least, some of her TV appearances include interviews with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (the Belarusian opposition leader); Suhail Shaheen (Taliban designated Amb. for the United Nations); John Bolton (Former National Security Advisor of the United States) and Abdullah Dardari (Former Deputy Prime Minister of Syria and United Nations Development Program's Resident Representative in Afghanistan).
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