Peter Livanos

Peter G. Livanos, born in 1958, is a Greek shipping tycoon who owns the Greek shipping company Ceres Hellenic and was involved in restructuring that business into the Ceres Hellenic group. The article describes Ceres Hellenic Shipping as the largest Greek fleet in terms of tonnage, with a smaller ferry line of Russian-made hydrofoils serving the Greek islands. He is the son of the shipping magnate George P. Livanos, who built up Greece's largest merchant fleet in the 1980s and 1990s, and his maternal grandfather was the Greek businessman Yiannis Carras. He studied at The Buckley School in New York, Le Rosey in Switzerland and Columbia University, graduating with a science degree in 1981, and he received an honorary doctorate of science from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. He is known for yachting, was at one time a majority shareholder of the car maker Aston Martin, and has been ranked among the wealthiest Greeks.