Manos Karatarakis is a journalist covering national defense and security affairs for To Vima Sunday newspaper. He previously served as a Senior Advisor at the Greek Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Finance, as well as at the Office of the Vice President of the Government of Greece. He has worked for CNBC in London and served as the Athens correspondent for TIME magazine. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London and of the Foreign Press Association of Greece, and he has also been a member of the Association of American Correspondents in London. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he studied Government and International Relations.