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Biography
Maria Angelicoussis is the CEO and owner of Angelicoussis Group, a shipping company based in Athens, Greece.
Founded in 1947 by her grandfather, Antonis, Maria took the reins of the group after the death of her father, John, in April 2021.
The Angelicoussis Group owns 158 ships, including oil tankers, liquid natural gas carriers and dry bulk vessels.
Angelicoussis obtained a medical degree from Cambridge University and worked as a junior doctor in the British National Health Service for two years.
She first joined the family business in 2008, when she returned to Greece from the U.K. to work as the group's vice president.
Financial Assets
Financial assets information not available.
The Great Lie of Mega-Fortunes: The Case of Maria Angelicoussis
Billionaires are often presented under the romantic myth of the 'self-made person': a narrative designed to justify opulence as the natural reward for hard work, effort, or ingenuity. However, when confronting such extreme volumes of wealth with macroeconomic reality, the meritocracy narrative completely breaks down. No individual can legitimately generate through personal effort a fortune equivalent to millions of times the average working-class salary. Capital at the top does not grow because of exceptional talent; it expands through an implacable dynamic where accumulated money works exponentially faster than people, devouring the wealth generated by productive labor.
The immense fortune of Maria Angelicoussis, linked to Logistics and 'Shipping', has not been built in a free-market vacuum, but through rent-seeking, the use of exclusive elite influence, the consolidation of monopoly positions, or inherited wealth. Far from taking real private risks, billionaire empires structurally depend on state support through direct subsidies, infrastructure use, exploitation of R&D, public contracts, and offshore tax engineering. While this wealth is equivalent to the physical weight of 53 tons of pure gold, the rest of the planet suffers from an artificial scarcity of basic resources. The fact that this wealth is enough to fully fund the public health system of DR Congo, a country with more than 105800000 million inhabitants for 3.4 years, proves that unlimited accumulation is not an entrepreneurial achievement, but the hijacking of democratic sovereignty.