About

Judicial career

From October 2017 to February 2020, Peter Germanos served as Government Commissioner to the Military Court (مفوض الحكومة لدى المحكمة العسكرية), the office commonly described as 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), as a main figure.

Today

He is now a lawyer in Beirut, and writes on criminal law, public order, banking secrecy and the rule of law.

Education and training

Doctorate in Law, Lebanese University, 2002. The thesis was published as L’ordre public (Éditions juridiques Sader, 2003).

MBA, École Supérieure des Affaires (ESA), 1998.

Harvard Kennedy School, Leadership for the 21st Century programme, April 2006.

US International Visitor Leadership Program, February 2012. During the programme he was named an Honorary Citizen of Pensacola, Florida, on 22 February 2012.

Books

Peter Germanos is the author of five books on criminal law, public order, leases and banking secrecy. See the Books page.

Outlook

A centre-right, conservative Catholic, he stands for the rule of law and a free-market economy, with less regulation.