Theophilos Argitis

Theo Argitis, 55, is Ottawa bureau chief and head of Canadian economic and government news at Bloomberg.

Theo has been writing on global economic and politic affairs for three decades. His journalism career began in the mid-1990s, where he reported on the developing economies of Eastern Europe as managing editor of current affairs weekly New Europe. He joined Bloomberg in 1999 to open a bureau in Athens, before moving to Ottawa six years later.

Since 2005, Theo has written on just about every major story at the nexus of power and money in Canada. 

Born in Athens and raised in Montreal, Theo graduated from McGill University in 1989 and holds a Masters degree in economics from the University of Toronto.