Peter G. Livanos (born 1958), is a Greek shipping

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. 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

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, 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

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. Livanos is a graduate of The Buckley School in New York,

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in Switzerland and

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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

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. He was also a majority shareholder of the car manufacturer Aston Martin. 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, who built up Greece’s largest merchant fleet in the 1980s and 1990s. His maternal grandfather is the Greek businessman

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, and he is a distant relative of

Stavros G. Livanos Stavros George Livanos ( el, Σταύρος Λιβανός; 1891– May 28, 1963), was a Greek shipowner, native of Chios, and the founder of the Livanos shipping empire. He was also a rival as well as father-in-law to billionaire Greek shipping ty ...

by his father's side.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Livanos, Peter 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