Piergiorgio Pepe

Piergiorgio Pepe (he/him) is a Paris- and Αthens-based ethics practitioner and art collector.

Through his advisory firm Quantum Ethics, he has advised companies and institutions on ethics and compliance programs since 2018. From 2005 to 2018, he worked as an ethics officer in the healthcare industry. Before then, he worked for 10 years as a senior EU lawyer for an international city law firm in London. He’s also active in academia (Sciences Po, INSEAD, Seton Hall), where he regularly teaches courses on business ethics and ethics in the art sector.

Piergiorgio has been collecting art with his partner Iordanis Kerenidis since 2006. The Kerenidis Pepe Collection encompasses a variety of initiatives, including acquisitions, exhibitions, projects such as “Phenomenon” (2018 Montblanc Arts Patronage Award-winner), research on the ethics of collecting, publishing of artist books and catalogs, and other supporting actions. As collectors, Piergiorgio and Iordanis strive to practice collecting as a public, reflective, socially responsible endeavor, continuously redeployed towards expanding affective and political purposes. The Kerenidis Pepe Collection has been represented in the acquisition committee of the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) in France (2012-2015) and featured in the 2020 SUBSTANCE 100 list by Collecteurs. Piergiorgio is also a member of the board of the curatorial office Council.