Theodore Margellos
Switzerland, Geneva
He has had an outstanding career in Agribusiness for the last forty years.
An entrepreneur who founded, managed and developed agribusiness investments around the world, from Ukraine to Canada, creating significant shareholder value. He was also an “angel investor” in the high-end restaurant chain project – “L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon” – which achieved a remarkable presence worldwide. In 2007, together with Yale University, he established the Margellos World Republic of Letters series, which was designed to bring to the English-speaking world leading poets, novelists, essayists, philosophers, and playwrights from around the world.
A Greek and Swiss citizen, he graduated from HEC, University of Lausanne (1975). He is fluent in Greek, English, French, Italian and Russian.