Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Chapters: Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Jo Whiley, Donal MacIntyre, Abi Titmuss, Tiff Needell, William Lewis, David Heath, Sophie Raworth, Boris Starling, Esther McVey, Michael Fish, Dermot Murnaghan, Syed Kamall, Tobias Ellwood, James J. Greco, Chloë Fox, Jeremiah Birnbaum, Fiona O'Malley, Linda Papadopoulos, Robert Chote, Ellie Crisell, John Brignell, John Loder, Ebrahim Moosa, Declan Danaher, Rhodri Marsden, Barbara Serra, Grub Smith, Sharon Maguire, Gary Younge, Andrea Christofidou, Joanna Blythman, Samira Ahmed, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Ian Saville, Kirsty Lang, Gillian Joseph, Adrian Moore, William Castell, Brendan Barber, Anjali Rao, Dick Olver, Tim Devlin, Sally Bundock, Steven Haberman. Excerpt: Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (Greek: ), born 14 February 1967) is a British entrepreneur of Greek Cypriot origin, currently a resident of Monaco. He is the scion of a wealthy, shipowning family, but is best known for setting up easyJet, a highly successful and profitable low-cost airline, with start-up funds provided by his father, the beginning of a series of ventures under the Easy brand. Haji-Ioannou, who prefers to be called and is usually addressed by his given name, Stelios, is the second of the three children of Loucas and Nedi Haji-Ioannou. He was born in Athens, Greece. His father's side originates from the Pedoulas village in the mountains of Cyprus, while his mother is from the Potsos family of Laneia village, outside the city of Limassol. After his secondary education in Athens, he studied Economics at the London School of Economics, graduating with a BSc in 1987. He went on to obtain an MSc in Shipping, Trade & Finance from Cass Business School. Haji-Ioannou has subsequently been awarded four honorary doctorates from Liverpool John Moores University, Cass Business School, Newcastle Business School and Cranfield University. A self-labelled "serial entrepreneur", Haji-Ioannou started working in 1988 for his father's already successful shipping business, Troodos Shipping Co Ltd. When Stelios was 25, his father gave him 30 million pounds that he used to set up his own shipping company, Stelmar Shipping. Haji-Ioannou floated the company on the NYSE in 2001. In 2005, Stelmar Shipping was sold to the OSG Group for approximately $1.3 billion. In April 1991, whilst working in the family-owned Troodos shipping company, Stelios' name was involved in an oil tanker disaster that resulted the death of 5 Europeans and the disgorging up to 50, 000 tonnes of crude oil into the sea - arguably the Mediterranean's worst-ever ecological disaster. Stelios and his father faced manslaughter charges for the explosion on the M/T Haven. The tanker was an elderly vessel, formerly named