{"id":49943,"date":"2020-11-25T18:48:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/listing\/stelios-haji-ioannou\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T13:18:56","slug":"stelios-haji-ioannou","status":"publish","type":"listing","link":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/listing\/stelios-haji-ioannou\/","title":{"rendered":"Stelios Haji-Ioannou"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stelios is the son of a Cypriot shipping magnate, who loaned him \u00a35 million to start the airline venture in 1995. Today easyGroup, headquartered in London, includes easyCar, easyHotel, easyBus and more.<\/p>\n\n<p>He was born in Athens in 1967, his father is a Greek entrepreneur who created the Troodos company, one of the largest fleets in the world. Stelios has lived in Monaco since his family moved there as a teenager.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If I had ever been afraid of the competition, I would never have opened an airline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Stelios studied at the London School of Economics and the Cass Business School in London. He founded his shipping company Stelmar in 1992 and then the company easyJet in 1995. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stelios-haji-ioannou-monaco.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"58585\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stelios-haji-ioannou-monaco.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/listing\/stelios-haji-ioannou\/stelios-haji-ioannou-monaco\/\" class=\"wp-image-58586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stelios-haji-ioannou-monaco.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stelios-haji-ioannou-monaco-482x300.jpg 482w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stelios-haji-ioannou-monaco-241x150.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stelios-haji-ioannou-monaco-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stelios-haji-ioannou-monaco-175x109.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stelios-haji-ioannou.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"58589\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stelios-haji-ioannou.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/listing\/stelios-haji-ioannou\/stelios-haji-ioannou\/\" class=\"wp-image-58590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stelios-haji-ioannou.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stelios-haji-ioannou-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stelios-haji-ioannou-250x150.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/stelios-haji-ioannou-175x105.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<p>He diversified his business by creating a chain of Internet caf\u00e9s, a credit card company, a car rental company and a hotel chain. EasyJet went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2000, Stelmar became listed the following year in New York. <\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I don&#8217;t have a lot of time for leisure activities but I take my yacht out on the Mediterranean a few weekends a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Stelios&#8217; personal fortune is estimated at \u00a31.29 billion. He was knighted in 2006. <\/p>\n\n<p>In 2017, he announced his intention to donate \u00a32 billion to Bill Gates&#8217; organisation, Giving Pledges. <\/p>\n\n<p>His charity foundation, the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation, supports education as well as entrepreneurial and environmental initiatives by providing funding and advice in the UK, Greece and Cyprus. It also sponsors annual cash awards to entrepreneurs in the UK, Greece and Cyprus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47080,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"listing-category":[2128,2127],"class_list":["post-49943","listing","type-listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","listing-category-entreprise-finance","listing-category-celebrities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stelios Haji-Ioannou - Monaco Tribune<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/listing\/stelios-haji-ioannou\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stelios Haji-Ioannou\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stelios is the son of a Cypriot shipping magnate, who loaned him \u00a35 million to start the airline venture in 1995. 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