Markos Kounalakis

Markos Kounalakis, Ph.D. is a Visiting Fellow at The Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Markos is also serving as California's First "Second Gentleman" for the State of California and holds the title of Senior Research Fellow at Central European University. Kounalakis is the President and Publisher Emeritus of Washington Monthly and has authored several books including "Spin Wars & Spy Games: Global Media and Intelligence Gathering". Additionally, Markos has served as a Foreign Affairs Columnist for McClatchy and The Sacramento Bee. Kounalakis is a board member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and has a diverse educational background in political science, international journalism, public policy analysis, and journalism.