Kaki Bali began her journalistic career in 1990 at Deutsche Welle.

Before that, she studied mathematics in Thessaloniki and is still fascinated by axioms, theorems and complex systems. In the 1990s, as a correspondent for Greek media, she explained the complicated German politics and society, from reunification to the first red-green coalition. She then spent years reporting on the Western Balkans for the newspapers “Avgi” and “Agelioforos”

From 2008, she became a crisis editor: Lehman Brothers crisis, Euro crisis, refugee crisis, pandemic crisis.

Since 2021 she is a diplomatic editor.