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TH E WORLDÕ S BILLIONA IR E S

KAZAKHSTAN LEBANON Bahaa Hariri  LIECHTENSTEIN
$2.1 BIL #1157 REAL ESTATE,
INVESTMENTS, LOGISTICS
GDP: $158 BIL GDP: $52.7 BIL Robert Mouawad & fam  GDP: $6.3 BIL
POPULATION: 18 MIL POPULATION: 6 MIL $1.6 BIL #1477 FINE JEWELRY BEIRUT 3 POPULATION: 37,900
BILLIONAIRES: 5 BILLIONAIRES: 7 Saad Hariri  BILLIONAIRES: 1
TOTAL NET WORTH: $14.4 BIL (+3 VS. 2017) $1.5 BIL #1561 CONSTRUCTION, TOTAL NET WORTH:
$3.9 BIL
(+$3.9 BIL VS. 2017) TOTAL NET WORTH: $13.3 INVESTMENTS (+$1.2 BIL VS. 2017)
BIL (+$4.3 BIL VS. 2017)
Ayman Hariri  VADUZ
$1.3 BIL #1756 CONSTRUCTION,
Taha Mikati  INVESTMENTS Christoph Zeller 
$2.8 BIL #859 TELECOM $3.9 BIL #572
Fahd Hariri 
ASTANA Najib Mikati  $1.3 BIL #1756 CONSTRUCTION, DENTAL IMPLANTS
$2.7 BIL #887 TELECOM INVESTMENTS EXPATRIATES
4
ALMATY
WEALTH TOP SECTORS
4 ORIGIN 4 Jeronimo Arango & family 
MEXICO FOOD & BEVERAGE Antonio Del Valle Ruiz &
$4.3 BIL #499 RETAIL
Timur Kulibaev  19% 37% METALS & MINING 3 family 
$3.2 BIL #729 BANKING $3.4 BIL #679 CHEMICALS
GDP: $1.1 TRIL; POPULATION: 124 MIL 44% 2 Jose and Francisco Jose
Dinara Kulibaeva  BILLIONAIRES: 16 (+1 VS. 2017) FASHION & RETAIL
$3.2 BIL #729 BANKING 2 Calderon Rojas 
TOTAL NET WORTH: $141 BIL INHERITED & GROWING $2.9 BIL #822 BEVERAGES
Vladimir Kim  (+$24.3 BIL VS. 2017) INHERITED FINANCE & INVESTMENTS
$3.1 BIL #766 MINING SELF-MADE Carlos Hank Rhon 
$2 BIL #1215 BANKING
Bulat Utemuratov 
$2.6 BIL #924 MINING, BANKING, Carlos Slim Helu & family  Eva Gonda de Rivera & fam  Roberto Hernandez
HOTELS Germán Larrea Ramirez  MEXICO: EMILIO AZCARRAGA: YADYN XOLALPA/EL UNIVERSAL/NEWSCOM; CARLOS SLIM: DANIEL CARDENAS/ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES;
$67.1 BIL #7 TELECOM $7.1 BIL #222 BEVERAGES $1.9 BIL #1284 BANKING
Alijan Ibragimov  German Larrea Mota Ricardo Salinas Pliego & fam  Mota Velasco
$2.3 BIL #1070 MINING, METALS Emilio Azcarraga Jean 
Velasco & family  $7.1 BIL #222 RETAIL, MEDIA NEWSMAKER: Larrea’s Grupo $1.7 BIL #1394
$17.3 BIL #72 MINING TV BROADCASTING
Maria Asuncion México, one of the world’s
Alberto Bailleres Aramburuzabala & family  largest copper miners, took its Rufino Vigil Gonzalez 

KUWAIT Gonzalez & family  $5.9 BIL #296 BEER, INVESTMENTS railway subsidiary GMéxico $1.4 BIL #1650 STEEL
$10.7 BIL #143 MINING
Juan Francisco Beckmann Transportes public on the David Penaloza Alanis 
Vidal & family 
GDP: $119 BIL $5.7 BIL #315 TEQUILA Mexican stock exchange in $1.3 BIL #1756 TOLL ROADS

POPULATION: 4 MIL November. The company Alfredo Harp Helu & family 
BILLIONAIRES: 4 has nearly 7,000 miles of $1.2 BIL #1867 BANKING
TOTAL NET WORTH: $5.2 BIL railroads across Mexico
(–$200 MIL VS. 2017) and in Texas and GERMAN LARREA: SUSANA GONZALEZ/BLOOMBERG
Florida.
Kutayba Alghanim
FAMILY FEUD: Alghanim chairs
his family’s Alghanim Industries.
Its diverse interests include the
Wendy’s franchise in the Mid-
dle East and, in Ku-
wait, the auto dealer- Emilio
ships that sell GM and Azcárraga Jean
Ford cars. He and his NEWSMAKER: After MONTERREY
brother Bassam, also two decades at the
a billionaire, have helm, Azcárraga resigned
been fighting over how as CEO of Grupo Televisa, LOS CABOS

to divide their late fa- Mexico’s biggest broad-
ther’s business empire SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE
since at least 2007; the arbitra- caster, in January at a
challenging time. Ad reve-
tion between them has dragged nues for Televisa’s TV unit CLUB ATLAS
on for years. RICARDO SALINAS PLIEGO CF PACHUCA EXPATRIATE HOLBOX
fell 11% in 2017, follow- CLUB LEON CARLOS SLIM HELU 1
ing a net income plunge CARLOS SLIM HELU
of more than 50% in
KUWAIT CITY 2016. Azcárraga, MEXICO CITY TULUM
3 PUNTA MITA CLUB AMERICA
who owns near- EMILIO AZCARRAGA JEAN
ly 15% of Televi-
sa, is staying on
as executive chair-
EXPATRIATE man of the compa- 13
1 ny, which his grand-
father founded. His Carlos Slim Helú
Bassam Alghanim  late father, Emilio
$1.4 BIL #1650 DIVERSIFIED Azcárraga Milmo, is RICHEST: Slim’s foundation partnered with Mexico’s
Kutayba Alghanim  credited with turn- National Autonomous University (UNAM) and Mexico’s
$1.4 BIL #1650 DIVERSIFIED ing Televisa into a National Human Rights Commission in March 2017 to

Fawzi Al-Kharafi  powerhouse that help millions of Mexicans living in the U.S. apply to be-
$1.2 BIL #1867 DIVERSIFIED exports its soap come American citizens. The groups support a website

operas around the called Acceso Latino, which offers information about free

Mohannad Al-Kharafi 
$1.2 BIL #1867 DIVERSIFIED world. legal aid and loans for the citizenship application fee.
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