The Onassis Archive belongs to the “Alexander S. Onassis Foundation” and covers the fifty-years entrepreneurial period of Aristotle Onassis. It consists of hundreds of archival boxes with thousands of documents and reveals the activities of a multinational business group across the globe, with companies in four continents (Europe, Asia, Africa and America) and 14 countries (Greece, France, Monaco, Germany, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, Argentina, Uruguay, Panama, Honduras, United States, Saudi Arabia and Liberia); its construction and classification breaks new ground in Business History internationally.

Gelina Harlaftis is Director, Institute for Mediterranean Studies Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas, Professor of History of Maritime History, University of Crete