{"id":10852,"date":"2022-03-01T00:18:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/?page_id=10162"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:47:58","slug":"dr-george-d-pateras","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/person\/dr-george-d-pateras\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr George D. Pateras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George D. Pateras, born in London, UK and the father of 3 adult children, is the Deputy Chairman of ContShips Management Inc. and was the President of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping for 9 years, from 2016 until 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He studied Engineering and Economics and holds a BSc in Marine Engineering from Newcastle University, MS in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture from MIT and a PhD from Plymouth University.<\/p>\n<p>He is a Board member of the Hellenic War Risks Association and the Bahamas Shipowners Association, Chairman of the Hellenic Shipping War Risks Insurance S.A., Vice Chairman, NATO, PBOS now TG(OS) (2000-) and permanent advisor (AMSCC) of the Hellenic Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Pateras has also served as the Chairman of the Bahamas Shipowners\u2019 Association (2011-2015) and as a Board member of the Hellenic Seamen\u2019s Pension Fund (1984-1993), Olympic Aviation (1991-1993), the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping (1986-2015), the Union of Greek Shipowners (1983-2004), HELMEPA (1996-1998), the BSA representative on International Chamber of Shipping (2011-2015) and Managing Director of Aegeus Shipping S.A. (1981-2018).<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1720,"menu_order":26,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10852","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/10852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/10852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16450,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/10852\/revisions\/16450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}