As well as my business activities, I am Chairman of the A G Leventis Foundation, and I am involved in nature conservation and activities encouraging an environmental approach to development. These have extended from West Africa, where I have spent much of my working life, to other parts of Africa, Southern Europe and South America.  My commitment to bird conservation includes the establishment of an avian research institute in Nigeria, as well as participation in and support for national and international conservation organisations such as Birdlife International and some of its partner organisations.

My long-term support for conservation and focus on finding solutions to the degradation of the natural environment has been widely recognised by the award of five Honorary Doctorates, as well as a CBE from the British Government and an OFR from the Government of Nigeria.

​​I live in Athens with my wife and family, although I still travel extensively, mostly to Nigeria and Cyprus, from where my family originally comes.