John Belousis

John Belousis is Managing Director of Independent Average Adjusters, which he co-founded with Paul Cook in 1997. He holds a BA (Hons) in Law, an MA, and an LL.M. in Comparative International Law and Law of the Sea from Cambridge University.

He trained with Norton, Rose, Botterell & Roche before joining Piraeus shipping company Michael A. Karageorgis S.A. as legal adviser, handling insurance claims and charterparty disputes. During the 1990s he was a director of several Manley Hopkins Group subsidiaries, including P. Wigham Richardson (Hellas), working in ship sale and purchase, management and average adjusting.

He has spoken as a panellist at Mare Forum's Mykonos conference in 2024, 2025 and 2026.