Speaker

He was born in Athens, 1953. He studied Chemical Engineering at National Technical
University of Athens. His family has its origins in Ikaria, an island of the Eastern
Aegean Sea with which he has cultivated strong bonds.
He has worked initially as an agent and distributor of raw materials to the tanning and
shoe making industry during the period 1977-1996.
Since 1986 he has established, with other partners, a distribution company for
chemicals to the coatings, plastics, polymers industries among many industrial
sectors. The company under the name of Delta Chemicals covered gradually almost
every industrial application as a supplier of raw materials and specialty chemicals,
providing also technical assistance and expertise. The company was also active in the
Balkans and surrounding areas through subsidiary companies in Romania and Turkey.
In 2016 the company has been sold and merged in the RAVAGO group (Luxemburg)
a big multinational distribution entity. Mr. Aivaliotis left the management of the
company in 2019.
At the same time there were parallel business activities in the investment field
(through funds such as AIOLIKI, listed in Athens’ stock exchange), in the distribution
of electrical appliances/air conditioning, in construction of buildings.
As a political person, he was a founding member of the “Fileleftheri” (1999) and
“Drassi” (2009) political parties, two attempts to establish a Liberal party in Greece.
He was Vice President of “Drassi” until its merging with New Democracy Party in
2019. He was candidate for the Parliament in 2012 (Drassi), 2015 (Drassi/Potami) and
2019 (New Democracy).
He was also a Vice President of the Entrepreneurship Club from 2009 to 2019 (the
association which gives yearly the Kouros rewards to the most dynamic and
successful business endeavors).
He was involved, on a project basis, as a counselor of the Deputy Minister of Finance
with the task force to provide a State Guarantee on a loan to revive the investment
activities of Energean to the Prinos oil fields (Kavala), which are destined to become
the first Carbon Dioxide Storage facility in Greece (CCS), as well as with the
architecture and procedures of the loans project of the European Recovery and
Resilience Fund, from 2020 to 2023.
He is currently General Secretary for Energy and Mineral Resources at the Ministry
of Environment and Energy from July 2023.
He is married to Anna Aivaliotou, having a happy family with two children and three
grandchildren.