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 member of the Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund (GEPIF) team at BlackRock, which currently manages over $9 billion on behalf of clients for investment in the power generation, midstream, transportation, utility and other areas in the energy sector across three long-term funds.  The team has created over 35 portfolio companies for the GEPIF Funds and actively invests globally.  BlackRock acquired the Funds in 2017, which were created and built at First Reserve, a private equity firm that has been investing in exclusively in the energy sector since 1983.  Within the GEPIF team, Mr. Berner is responsible for investment origination, execution and management, focusing on the power generation, shipping and liquefied natural gas sectors. He is a member of the Fund investment, management and ESG committees.

Mr. Berner has over 20 years of experience in energy 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 $700 million of equity investments. Prior to joining First Reserve in 2011, Mr. Berner was a Managing Director at General Electric Capital Corporation in the Energy Financial Services division focused on energy investing and lending, and worked in the USA, UK and Singapore. Prior to General Electric Capital Corporation, he was a Vice President, Project and Structured Finance, at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. focused on US and Latin American project finance and advisory.

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.

Eduard Ruijs is a Managing Director in the Global Energy & Power Infrastructure funds team, which currently manage $9 billion for investment in the power, midstream, utility and other areas in the energy sector across 3 infrastructure funds.  Mr. Eduard Ruijs is leading the London team and is responsible for investment origination, execution and exit strategy, focusing on the energy infrastructure sector in EMEA and Asia-Pacific. Eduard is on the Board of ADNOC Oil Pipelines, Kellas Midstream, GasLog, Medgaz and Renovalia / Demex.

Eduard led the London infrastructure investment team at First Reserve, which was acquired by BlackRock in June 2017. Prior to building the infrastructure franchise at First Reserve since 2011, Eduard was an Investment Director & Partner with NIBC Infrastructure Partners, a Europe focused infrastructure fund manager, where he executed several investments in the renewable energy and midstream sectors, and served on the Boards of those companies. Prior to NIBC, he was a senior Principal with Boston Consulting Group’s Energy Practice in London, and a Manager with A.T.  Kearney Ltd, where he advised mostly energy clients.

Eduard Ruijs earned a M. Juris in Law and Economics of Oxford University where he was a Chevening Scholar, an MSc (Drs) in Economics and MA (Mr.) in Law from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, a Bachelor in Business Administration of Nijenrode University in the Netherlands, and obtained an Executive MBA from Michigan Business School as well as graduated from Japan Prizewinners Programme at Leiden University in Tokyo.