Markos Kounalakis | |
|---|---|
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| Second Gentleman of California | |
Current | |
| Assumed role January 7, 2019 | |
| Lieutenant Governor | Eleni Kounalakis |
| Preceded by | Jennifer Siebel Newsom (as Second Lady) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 1, 1956[1] San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Columbia University (MSc) |
Markos Kounalakis (Greek: Μάρκος Κουναλάκης; born December 1, 1956) is an American syndicated journalist and scholar who is the second gentleman of California as the husband of lieutenant governor Eleni Kounalakis.[a] He 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.[4]
Kounalakis is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Center for Media, Data, and Society at Central European University.[5]
- ^ "Markos Kounalakis, Born 12/01/1956 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org". www.californiabirthindex.org.
- ^ "The political spouse: It's not a job just for women anymore". The Sacramento Bee. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ^ "Markos Kounalakis | CMDS". cmds.ceu.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
- ^ "In US and around the world, freedom has expensive price tag | Miami Herald". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2020-11-06.
- ^ "Markos Kounalakis". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
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