Portrait of Mohamed Mansour

Rank #1059

Mohamed Mansour

Net worth $4.0B

Diversified · Egypt

Born
Jan 23, 1948
Age
78
Source
Diversified
Residence
London
Citizenship
Egypt
Marital status
Married
Children
2
Education
Master of Business Administration, Auburn University; Bachelor of Science, North Carolina State University

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Biography

  • Mohamed Mansour oversees family conglomerate Mansour Group, which was founded by his father Loutfy (d. 1976) in 1952 and has 60,000 employees.
  • Mansour established General Motors dealerships in Egypt in 1975, later becoming one of GM's biggest distributors worldwide.
  • Mansour Group also has exclusive distribution rights for Caterpillar equipment in Egypt and seven other African countries.
  • Mansour, who has both Egyptian and U.K. citizenship, served as Egypt's minister of transportation from 2006 to 2009 under the Hosni Mubarak regime.
  • His brothers Yasseen and Youssef, who share ownership in the family group, are also billionaires; his son Loutfy heads private equity arm Man Capital.
  • Mansour's father lost his fortune when Egypt's then president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, expropriated his cotton trading company in 1964.
  • Mansour worked as a busboy in a pizza parlor while at North Carolina State University to pay for college.

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