Our leadership

Our chairman and a member of our board of directors. Mr. Livanos founded our subsidiary GasLog LNG Services in 2001 and has been a director of GasLog Partners LP since the closing of its initial public offering in May 2014. He has served as our chairman since the Company was incorporated in July 2003 and held the role of Chief Executive Officer from January 2012 until January 2013.

Mr. Livanos is the chairman and sole shareholder of Ceres Shipping, an international shipping group. He also serves as chairman of several of Ceres Shipping’s subsidiaries, including DryLog Ltd., a company engaged in dry bulk shipping investments.

In 1989 Mr. Livanos formed Seachem Tankers Ltd., which in 2000 combined with Odfjell ASA (later renamed Odfjell SE). He served on the board of directors of Odfjell SE until 2008.

Mr. Livanos is a graduate of Columbia University.

Julian R. Metherell was appointed Vice Chairman of our board of directors in November 2020 and has been a member of our board since October 2011. Mr. Metherell has been Chairman of the Safety & Sustainability Committee since November 2019. Mr. Metherell was appointed to our Audit & Risk Committee from May to November 2020.  Mr. Metherell was appointed to the GasLog Partners LP board of directors and Audit Committee in August 2020.

Mr. Metherell was the chief financial officer and a director of Genel Energy plc, a leading independent oil and gas exploration and production company operating in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Genel Energy plc is the successor to Vallares Plc, a publicly listed acquisition company which Mr. Metherell co-founded in April 2011.

From 1999 to 2011, Mr. Metherell was a partner at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., where he served as chief executive officer of the UK investment banking division. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Metherell was a director in the European energy group at Dresdner Kleinwort, a London-based investment bank. Mr. Metherell is a graduate of Manchester University, where he received a B.Sc. degree, and of Cambridge University, where he received an M.B.A.

Anthony S. Papadimitriou (Independent) has been a member of our board of directors since November 2011, when he was designated by the Onassis Foundation to serve as one of our directors.

Mr. Papadimitriou is the managing partner of the law firm A.S. Papadimitriou and Partners, a position he has held since 1990.

From 1986 until 2005, Mr. Papadimitriou served as legal counsel for Olympic Shipping & Management S.A, an affiliate of the Onassis Foundation, and since 1995 he has been the coordinator of the Executive Committee of the commercial activities controlled by the Onassis Foundation. In addition, Mr. Papadimitriou has been a member of the board of directors of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation since 1988, serving as the president of the board since 2005.

Mr. Papadimitriou is a graduate of the Athens University Law School and holds a postgraduate degree in maritime and transport law from the University Aix-en-Provence, a B.Sc. from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Mr. Papadimitriou was appointed to the Board of GasLog Partners in May 2015 and stepped down on January 31, 2019.

James C. Berner, Managing Director, is a senior Managing Director with the Diversified Infrastructure team at BlackRock, which currently manages over $14 billion for investment in the energy, transportation and digital sectors across four long-term funds.  Mr. Berner also heads BlackRock’s new core, open-ended Evergreen Infrastructure Fund, which had its first close with nearly $1 billion in capital in October, 2023, and is an active investor in similar sectors.

With Diversified Infrastructure, Mr. Berner is responsible for investment origination and execution, leading its efforts in the power generation, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and shipping sectors. He has originated and executed over $2.8 billion of investments across those Funds, and is a member of the Funds’ investment and management committees.

Mr. Berner has over 25 years of experience in infrastructure investing and lending.  Prior to joining BlackRock in 2017, Mr. Berner was a Managing Director on the Energy Infrastructure team at First Reserve where he executed over $750 million of equity investments. Prior to joining First Reserve in 2011, Mr. Berner was a Managing Director at General Electric Capital Corporation in its Energy Financial Services division (including investments in shipping), and was based in the USA, UK and Singapore.  Prior to GE, he was a Vice President, Project and Structured Finance, at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in New York focused on the US and Latin America.

Mr. Berner earned a B.A., cum laude, from Cornell University in 1990, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies in 1996 and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business in 1998.

Christian Synetos was appointed to our Board in March 2023 and is a member of the BlackRock Global Infrastructure Funds team where his responsibilities include investment origination and structuring, due diligence, execution, monitoring, and exit strategy in essential contracted infrastructure assets and businesses focusing on the long-term trends of decarbonization, decentralization and digitalization and has also been actively involved with investments in Renovalia, PetroFirst and PetroFirst II.

Prior to joining BlackRock Global Infrastructure Funds team in 2012, Mr. Synetos spent 5 years with UBS Investment Bank in London where he focused on advising clients in the European utilities industry.

Mr. Synetos graduated from Imperial College London with an MEng degree in mechanical engineering in 2007.