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Business leaderNaguib SawirisNaguib Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian-American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of Orascom Investment Holding and the former chairman and CEO of Orascom Telecom Holding.
Business leaderAshraf MarwanMohamed Ashraf Abu El Wafa Marwan, known as Ashraf Marwan, was an Egyptian official who was alleged to have spied for the Mossad, though former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak later denied the claim. Other accounts contend that he served as a double agent for Egypt, providing misleading information to Israel.
Business leaderWang ChuanfuWang Chuanfu is a Chinese chemist, billionaire entrepreneur, and the founder, chairman and CEO of the BYD Company.
Business leaderZhang YimingZhang Yiming is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur. He founded ByteDance in 2012, developed the news aggregator Toutiao and the video sharing platform Douyin. Zhang is one of the richest individuals in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$105 billion as of September 2026, according to Bloomberg. He is the first Chinese centibillionaire. On 4 November 2021, Zhang stepped down as CEO of ByteDance, completing a leadership handover announced in May 2021. According to Reuters, Zhang maintains over 50 percent of ByteDance's voting rights. The surging global popularity of TikTok made Zhang the richest man in China in 2024.
Business leaderArvind SwamyArvind Swamy is an Indian actor, film director and entrepreneur known for his work in Tamil cinema and a few Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam films. He was introduced by Mani Ratnam with Thalapathi (1991) and subsequently starred in Roja (1992), Paasamalargal (1994), Bombay (1995), Minsara Kanavu (1997), Thani Oruvan (2015), Chekka Chivantha Vaanam (2018), Thalaivi (2023) and Meiyazhagan (2024). He made his debut as a director in the Netflix anthology series Navarasa (2021). He is a recipient of four Filmfare Award South, one Tamil Nadu State Film Award and two SIIMA Awards.
Business leaderFaisal bin Farhan Al SaudPrince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah bin Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud is a Saudi Arabian diplomat and politician who has been serving as the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia since 2019. Prince Faisal has also served as the Saudi ambassador to Germany from 27 March 2019 until his appointment as foreign minister by a royal decree issued by King Salman. Prince Faisal was born in Frankfurt, West Germany and spent a part of his childhood and young adulthood in that country, which is why he speaks fluent German according to German news media.
Business leaderNuri KilligilNuri Killigil, also known as Nuri Pasha was an Ottoman general in the Ottoman Army. He was the half-brother of Ottoman Minister of War, Enver Pasha.
Business leaderGamal MubarakGamal Al Din Muhammad Hosni Sayed Mubarak is the younger of the two sons of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and former First Lady Suzanne Mubarak. In contrast to his older brother Alaa, Gamal had pursued an active public profile and was starting to wield some influence on political life in the country before the revolution of early 2011.
Business leaderSam PitrodaSatyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda, popularly known as Sam Pitroda, is an Indian official, telecommunications engineer, innovator, and entrepreneur. He was born in Titlagarh, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, into a Gujarati family. He served as an advisor to Rajiv Gandhi and Manmohan Singh during their respective tenures as the Prime Minister of India, as well as to the United Nations. He is the chair of the Indian Overseas Congress. He is often credited as the “Father of India’s Telecom Revolution” for his role in modernizing the country’s communications infrastructure and shaping India’s technology landscape during the 1980s.
Business leaderCyrus MistryCyrus Pallonji Mistry was an Irish businessman. He was the chairman of the Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, from 2012 to 2016. He was the sixth chairman of the group, and only the second not to bear the surname Tata. In mid-2012, he was chosen by a selection panel to head the Tata Group and took charge in December that year. In October 2016, the board of Tata Group's holding company, Tata Sons, voted to remove Mistry from the post of chairman. Former chairman Ratan Tata then returned as interim chairman, and Natarajan Chandrasekaran was named as the new chairman a few months later. However, in December 2019, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) declared the appointment of Chandrasekaran as executive chairman illegal, and restored Mistry. However, the Supreme Court stayed NCLAT's order on 10 January 2020. Mistry had filed a cross-appeal in the court, seeking explanations for anomalies in the NCLAT. However, the Supreme Court upheld his dismissal.
Business leaderFatemeh PahlaviFatemeh Pahlavi was an Iranian princess of the Pahlavi dynasty. She was the tenth child of Reza Shah, and the half-sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Born in Tehran, she left Iran prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution. In 1987, Fatemeh died of cancer in London.
Business leaderZhou XiaochuanZhou Xiaochuan is a Chinese economist. Zhou served as the governor of the People's Bank of China from 2002 to 2018.
Business leaderMandarin (character)The Mandarin is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the archenemy of Iron Man. The character was created by Stan Lee and designed by Don Heck, first appearing in Tales of Suspense #50. The character is described as being born in China before the Communist revolution to a wealthy Chinese father and an English aristocratic mother, both of whom died when he was young. He is characterized as a megalomaniac, attempting to conquer the world on several occasions, yet also possessing a strong sense of honor. The Mandarin is portrayed as a genius scientist and a skilled martial artist. However, his primary sources of power are 10 rings that he adapted from the alien technology of a crashed spaceship. Each ring has a different power and is worn on a specific finger. Though his primary obsession is Iron Man, given his high status as a supervillain, he has also come into conflict with Thor, Hulk, Shang-Chi, and other superheroes in the Marvel Universe.
Business leaderSunil MittalSunil Bharti Mittal is an Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, a conglomerate with interests in telecommunications, satellite communications, digital infrastructure, financial services, real estate, and hospitality. Its flagship company, Bharti Airtel, operates in 17 countries across India, South Asia and Africa and is the world's second-largest mobile operator by subscriber base. In 2024, Bharti Airtel became the first Indian company of its generation to reach a market capitalisation of US$100 billion.
Business leaderShantanu NarayenShantanu Narayen is an Indian-American business executive who has been the chairman, president, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Adobe Inc. since December 2007. Before this, he was the company's president and chief operating officer since 2005.
Business leaderPallonji MistryPallonji Shapoorji Mistry was an Indian-born Irish businessman. He was chairman of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group and a major shareholder of India's largest private conglomerate, Tata Group.
Business leaderNoura Al KaabiHer Excellency Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi is an Emirati politician and businesswoman currently serving as Minister of State at the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She previously served as Minister of Culture and Youth from 2020 to 2023 for the United Arab Emirates. She has held the position since October 2017. Previously, she was the Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs from February 2016 to October 2017. She has also been the chairperson of the twofour54 since 2012 and Abu Dhabi Media since 2017.
Business leaderEsra'a Al ShafeiEsra'a Al Shafei is a Bahraini civil rights activist, blogger, and the founder and executive director of Majal and its related projects, including CrowdVoice.org. Al Shafei is a senior TED Fellow, an Echoing Green fellow, and has been referred to by CNN reporter George Webster as "An outspoken defender of free speech". She has been featured in Fast Company magazine as one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business." In 2011, The Daily Beast listed Al Shafei as one of the 17 bravest bloggers worldwide. She is also a promoter of music as a means of social change, and founded Mideast Tunes, which is currently the largest platform for underground musicians in the South West Asia and North Africa.
Business leaderMohammad Reza RahimiMohammad Reza Rahimi is an Iranian politician who served as the fifth first vice president from 13 September 2009 until 3 August 2013. His previous posts included governor of the Kurdistan province and vice president for parliamentary affairs.
Business leaderDadvan YousufDadvan Ismat Yousuf Yousuf is a Kurdish-born cryptocurrency investor and businessman. He became known in Switzerland for early investments in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and later founded the Dohrnii Foundation, a cryptocurrency education project that issued the DHN token, which reached a fully diluted market capitalization of $15 billion at its peak in 2025. He is considered the youngest Swiss self-made billionaire. In 2021 he was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. According to the Swiss newspaper Blick, Yousuf's net worth was reported at CHF 270 million in 2020, including CHF 189 million in cryptocurrency, while estimates based on market prices suggested his holdings exceeded CHF 1.2 billion. He is the first Kurd and Iraqi to have summited Mount Everest.
Business leaderMuhtar KentAhmet Muhtar Kent is a Turkish-American business executive. He was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company. He became CEO in 2008, and chairman in 2009, leaving those positions in 2016 and 2019 respectively. Kent is a member of Galatasaray Sports Club, number 14277.- ABusiness leaderAcun IlıcalıAli Acun Ilıcalı is a Turkish broadcaster, entrepreneur, international TV producer, and businessman. He is the owner of the TV channels TV8 and TV8.5, Turkey's digital platform Exxen. He is the founder and director of ACUNMEDYA, an international television production company.
Business leaderMurat ÜlkerMurat Ülker is a Turkish billionaire businessperson and the former chair of Yıldız Holding. He is among the 900 richest people in the world as of July 2026.
Business leaderXu RongmaoXu Rongmao, or Hui Wing Mau in Cantonese, is a Chinese-Australian entrepreneur and billionaire, and the founder and the chairman of Shimao Property. Xu is estimated to be one of the largest property developers in Shanghai.- DBusiness leaderDuan YongpingDuan Yongping is a Chinese-American billionaire entrepreneur and electrical engineer. He was the director of the Subor Electronics Industry Corporation and founded BBK Electronics Group. Duan's net worth was estimated at $20 billion, according to the 2026 valuesider.
Business leaderC. K. PrahaladCoimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad was an Indian-American entrepreneur and author.
Business leaderShiv NadarShiv Nadar is an Indian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL Technologies, and is chairman of the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar founded HCL in 1976 and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise over the next three decades.
Business leaderIra TrivediIra Trivedi is an Indian author, columnist, and yoga teacher. She writes both fiction and nonfiction, often on issues related to women and gender in India. Her works include India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century, What Would You Do to Save the World?, The Great Indian Love Story, and There's No Love on Wall Street.
Business leaderBijan Namdar ZangenehBijan Namdar Zangeneh is an Iranian politician, who served as minister, at different cabinets after the Islamic Revolution, for 30 years. He lately served as Minister of Petroleum from 2013 to 2021 in the cabinet led by Hassan Rouhani.
Business leaderKamil TolonKamil Özdemir Tolon was a Turkish businessperson, industrialist and inventor, known for the first manufacture of an electric engine in Turkey. Tolon was born in 1912 in Istanbul. He had his secondary and university education in Ankara. He wanted to become an engineer, but went to the Ankara University Faculty of Law instead due to the lack of engineering schools. He graduated in 1935, and started working as a Posta ve Telgraf Teşkilatı inspector after university, but left the job not long after.
Business leaderGu KailaiGu Kailai is a Chinese former lawyer and businesswoman. She is the second wife of former Politburo member Bo Xilai, one of China's most influential politicians until he was stripped of his offices in 2012. In August 2012, Gu was convicted of murdering British businessman Neil Heywood and was given a suspended death sentence, later commuted to life imprisonment in December 2015.
Business leaderChai LingChai Ling is a Chinese-American psychologist. She rose to prominence while studying at Peking University as one of the leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. After moving to the US, she founded All Girls Allowed, an organization dedicated to ending China's one-child policy, and Jenzabar, an enterprise resource planning software firm for educational institutions.
Business leaderGuo ShengkunGuo Shengkun is a retired Chinese politician and business executive. Between 2017 and 2022, he was the secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party, a member of the CCP Politburo, and a secretary of the CCP Secretariat.
Business leaderRen ZhiqiangRen Zhiqiang is an incarcerated Chinese real estate tycoon. Nicknamed "Big Cannon Ren", he is known for his outspoken views on Sina Weibo, where he accumulated more than 37 million followers until it was deleted by the Chinese authorities in 2016. He disappeared on 12 March 2020 after criticizing CCP general secretary Xi Jinping as a "clown" over the handling of China's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2020, he was sentenced to eighteen years' imprisonment on corruption charges, after a one-day trial.
Business leaderLiu QiangdongLiu Qiangdong (Richard) (Chinese: 刘强东; born March 10, 1973) is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur. Liu founded JD Multimedia as a business-to-consumer single retail store for magneto-optical products in June 1998 and later moved the company into an e-commerce website known as JD.com (also known as Jingdong) in 2013.- ZBusiness leaderZhou QunfeiZhou Qunfei is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the major touchscreen maker Lens Technology. After the public listing of her company on the Shenzhen ChiNext market in March 2015, her net worth reached US$10 billion, making her the richest woman in China. As of 2026, Forbes estimates her net worth at US$18.2 Billion, ranking among wealthiest self-made woman.
Business leaderRamnath GoenkaRamnath Goenka was an Indian newspaper publisher. He bought the majority stake of The Indian Express in 1930s. He created the Indian Express Group with various English and regional language publications. In 2000, India Today magazine, named him amongst their list of "100 People Who Shaped India". The Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards, named after Ramnath Goenka, are one of the awards in India in the field of journalism.
Business leaderRahul BajajRahul Bajaj was an Indian billionaire businessman and politician. He was the chairman emeritus of the Indian conglomerate Bajaj Group. He was awarded the third-highest civilian award in India, the Padma Bhushan, in 2001.- DIndian businessman (born 1955)Dilip ShanghviDilip Shanghvi is an Indian billionaire businessman. Shanghvi is the founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honor of the Padma Shri in 2016. India Today magazine ranked him 8th in India's most powerful people of 2017 list. According to Forbes, as of May 2025, Shanghvi is the fifth richest person in India with an estimated net worth of US$28.9 billion.
Business leaderMallika SrinivasanMallika Srinivasan is an Indian industrialist and is the Chairman and managing director of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, a tractor major incorporated in 1960 at Chennai, India. She is also the Chairperson of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) constituted by the Government of India since 18 November 2021. She had served on the Global Board of the U.S.- India Business Council (USIBC) and has led the B20 – India Task Force on “Inclusive GVCs for Resilient Global Trade and Investment” held in August 2023.
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