Peter G. Livanos (born 1958), is a Greek shipping
tycoon. He owns the Greek shipping company
Ceres Hellenic, and was involved in the restructuring of the shipping company into the group Ceres Hellenic.
Livanos lives with his family at
Lake Geneva, Athens and London. He controls 100% of Ceres Hellenic Shipping, the largest Greek fleet, in terms of tonnage, and a smaller ferry line of Russian-made hydrofoils that serve the
Greek Islands.
Livanos is a graduate of
The Buckley School in New York,
Le Rosey in Switzerland and
Columbia University in New York, from which he graduated with a B.S. degree in 1981. He is known for his yachting and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by the
Massachusetts Maritime Academy. He was also a majority shareholder of the car manufacturer
Aston Martin
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.
According to the
Bloomberg Billionaire Index, his net worth is estimated at $1.7 billion in 2015 and he has been ranked among the wealthiest Greeks.
He is the son of the shipping magnate
George P. Livanos
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, who built up Greece’s largest merchant fleet in the 1980s and 1990s.
His maternal grandfather is the Greek businessman
Yiannis Carras, and he is a distant relative of
Stavros G. Livanos by his father's side.
References
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1956 births
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Living people
Greek billionaires
Buckley School (New York City) alumni
Alumni of Institut Le Rosey
Aston Martin