Kabir Mulchandani is the owner of Dubai-based real estate firm FIVE Holdings, which owns luxury party hotels and resorts in the Middle East, Spain, and Switzerland. He founded the firm in 2011 and ...

Indian-born farmer's son, Ravi Pillai, migrated to Saudi Arabia after his small construction business in his native Kerala state went bust. With help from a well-connected local partner, he started ...

Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani was prime minister of Qatar between 2007 and 2013; he also served as foreign minister from 1992 until 2013. His great-uncle founded modern Qatar in 1971, and he's a cousin of ...

Othman Benjelloun is CEO of BMCE Bank of Africa, which has a presence in more than 20 African countries. His father was a shareholder in RMA, a Moroccan insurance company; Benjelloun built it into a ...

Abdulla Al Ghurair founded Mashreqbank, a leading U.A.E. bank, in 1967. He stepped down as chairman in October 2019 but remains a board member. His eponymous holding company has interests in food, ...

Yasseen Mansour is a shareholder in the family-owned conglomerate Mansour Group, which was founded by his father, Loutfy (d. 1976), in 1952. Mansour Group is the exclusive distributor of GM vehicles ...

Shamsheer Vayalil is the founder and chairman of Burjeel Holdings, a network of hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies in the Middle East. His net worth got a boost from the October 2022 listing of ...

Najib Mikati cofounded Beirut-based investment firm M1 Group. Mikati currently serves as the prime minister of Lebanon, a position he previously held from 2011 to 2014 and briefly in 2005. Mikati and ...

Son of Indian expat teachers who migrated to Dubai in 1959, Sunny Varkey controls GEMS Education, the world's largest operator of K-12 schools. The private education firm secured CVC Capital Partners ...

Mohamed Mansour oversees family conglomerate, the Mansour Group, which was founded by his father in 1952 and has 60,000 employees. Mansour established General Motors dealerships in Egypt in 1975, ...

Naguib Sawiris is a scion of Egypt's wealthiest family. His brother Nassef is also a billionaire. He built a fortune in telecom, selling Orascom Telecom in 2011 to Russian telecom firm VimpelCom (now ...

Youssef Mansour is chairman of the family-owned conglomerate Mansour Group, which was founded by his father, Loutfy (d. 1976), in 1952. Mansour Group is the exclusive distributor of GM vehicles and ...