[3] He attended Instituts d'études politiques in Paris where he received his master's degree in political science, in 1978.
[5] In 2001, Zivy co-founded the Ameropa Foundation, which is focused on investing in sustainable and progressive charitable programs in the developing world.
[10] In 2017, following the request of a minority stakeholder in Toaz, Russian prosecutors began investigating allegations that Nitrochem Distribution AG, owned by Ameropa Group, owned by Zivy, was involved in fraudulent sale schemes around Russia's biggest chemical plant Togliattiazot, in which Ameropa was an indirect shareholder, generating hundreds of millions of dollars profits.
In July 2019, the Komsomolsky District Court of Togliatti (Russia) convicted Zivy, together with others, of "large-scale fraud committed by an organized group" and sentenced him, in his absence, to 9 years imprisonment.
Non-Russian courts, journalists, academics, and international organisations, have criticized the affair, describing it as "a classic example of Russian corporate siege and raiding practices"[11] and “flagrantly unfair”.