AHI VIRTUAL FORUM: 

The Role of Economic & Business Ties in the U.S.–Greece Strategic Partnership

John D. Saracakis is President of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, elected in July 2025, following 18 years of service to the Chamber as Vice President, Chair of the Public Affairs Committee, member of the Executive Committee, and member of the Board of Directors. He has also served as Chairman of the Hellenic-Swedish Chamber of Commerce for two consecutive terms (2013–2019).

He is Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saracakis Group of Companies, a leading family-owned company with a long tradition in the Greek economy and operations in four countries, where he has served in various capacities since 1998.

John studied Business Administration at Babson College, USA, and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Katerina Sokou is the Executive Director of the American Hellenic Chamber of Commerce USA. She is also a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, and a guest columnist at Greek daily Kathimerini.

In the U.S. since 2012, she has been Washington D.C. correspondent for Kathimerini and SKAI TV, the inaugural Theodore Couloumbis Fellow on Greek American relations at ELIAMEP, a visiting scholar at GWU’s Elliott School of International Affairs, and a member of the editorial board at the European Institute. Before that, she was a financial reporter at To Vima and International Financial News editor at Kathimerini.

Katerina studied History at the University of Ioannina and holds postgraduate degrees in International Studies from the University of Warwick and in Journalism from Columbia University, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism.