Peter Germanos is a Lebanese lawyer, author and former judge. From October 2017 to February 2020 he served as Government Commissioner to the Military Court, Lebanon's Military Prosecutor.
Earlier, as an investigating judge in Mount Lebanon, he was the investigating judge in the 2011 Tanielian (“taxi killer”) case. He appeared in Al Jazeera’s first short report on the case, made weeks after the serial crimes in 2011, and in its 2022 documentary, and he appears many times in the MBC Shahid series Taxi Killer (2025).
He holds a doctorate in law from the Lebanese University and an MBA from ESA, and attended Harvard Kennedy School’s Leadership for the 21st Century programme. In 2012, during the US International Visitor Leadership Program, he was named an Honorary Citizen of Pensacola, Florida.
He has written books on criminal law, public order, leases and banking secrecy. A centre-right conservative Catholic, he stands for the rule of law and a free-market economy.
At a glance
- Government Commissioner to the Military Court (Military Prosecutor of Lebanon), Oct 2017 – Feb 2020
- Investigating judge, Mount Lebanon; investigating judge in the 2011 Tanielian (“taxi killer”) case
- Lawyer, Beirut
- Doctorate in Law, Lebanese University, 2002; the thesis was published as L’ordre public (Sader, 2003)
- MBA, École Supérieure des Affaires (ESA), 1998
- Author of five books on law and justice