On 2 June, the gentleman banker Lambros Varnavides will stand in the foyer of the Yacht Club of Greece, high above Piraeus Harbour, and lead the reception line for some of the world’s top shipowners.
It is where he has stood every two years since the Royal Bank of Scotland elevated him to director of shipping in 1998, and he had a place in the line well before that through an RBS career that stretches back to 1974.
