Vasilis Pangalos is a graduate of the Department of Philology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he also obtained a Master’s degree. He has worked as a text editor at the newspaper "Kathimerini", as a journalist at the publishing group of "Makedonia" newspaper specialising in arts and cultural journalism and as a press office manager at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. He joined the team of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in October 2021.