Giorgos Christides (born in 1976) is a Greece-based investigative journalist focusing on migration. For more than a decade, he has reported for international outlets, including Der Spiegel (2012-2024), German public-service broadcasters ARD, the BBC, DW and the Guardian. He was bestowed with several journalism awards for investigations focusing on migration (the 2023 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism; the IJ4EU Impact Award in 2023 and 2022, the 2022 De Tegel award); and in 2009 he received the European Parliament Journalism Award. He holds a B.A. (Hons) in Journalism and Mass Media (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) as well as an MSc in European and International Politics (University of Edinburgh). He is currently enrolled as a PhD student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki’s Journalism School, researching migration and the media. In addition to that, he serves as a guest lecturer at the University of Athens for the Msc programme on Media and Refugee / Migration Flows. He is board member of the Foreign Press Association of Greece. As a representative of foreign correspondents, he is a member of Greece’s Task Force on Ensuring the Safety and Empowerment of Journalists and was a guest at the European Center for Press and Media Freedom Journalists in Residence programme in 2024 in Leipzig, Germany.