Naguib Sawiris (original) (raw)

• 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 Veon) in a multibillion-dollar transaction.
• He's chairman of Orascom TMT Investments, which has stakes in an asset manager in Egypt and Italian internet company Italiaonline, among others.
• He also developed a luxury resort called Silversands on the Caribbean island of Grenada.

Wealth History

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Personal Stats

Age

70

Source of Wealth

Telecom

Residence

Cairo, Egypt

Citizenship

Egypt

Marital Status

Married

Children

4

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Swiss Federal Polytechnical Institute; Master of Science, Swiss Federal Polytechnical Institute

Did you know

Sawiris helped found The Free Egyptians, a liberal political party, at the onset of Egypt's uprisings in 2011.

In 2015, he offered to buy a Greek or Italian island to house Syrian refugees, but Greece and Italy turned him down.

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