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Mo Ibrahim

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Sir Mohammed Fathi Ahmed Ibrahim (Arabic: محمد إبراهيم; born 3 May 1946) is a Sudanese-British billionaire businessman. He worked for several telecommunications companies, before founding Celtel, which, when sold, had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers in 14 African countries. After selling Celtel in 2005 for $3.4 billion, he set up the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa, as well as creating the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, to evaluate nations' performance. He is also a member of the Africa regional advisory board of London Business School. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mo Ibrahim is the 538th most popular businessperson (up from 624th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Sudan (up from 27th in 2019) and the most popular Sudanese Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Mo Ibrahim ranks 538 out of 847. Before him are Gilbert Kaplan, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Gautam Adani, Jean-Paul Agon, Walter Wild, and Jim Marshall. After him are Anders Hejlsberg, Eike Batista, Richard Hilton, Hermann Josef Abs, Arianna Huffington, and Claire Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Mo Ibrahim ranks 539. Before him are Pierfranco Vianelli, Viivi Luik, Martin van Creveld, Eva Šuranová, Claudette Werleigh, and Flossie Wong-Staal. After him are Charles Asati, Roselyne Bachelot, Harald Irmscher, Tom Walkinshaw, Vladimir Muntyan, and Emily de Jongh-Elhage.

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In Sudan

Among people born in Sudan, Mo Ibrahim ranks 26 out of 38. Before him are Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab (1934), Ahmed al-Mirghani (1941), Manute Bol (1962), Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf (1954), Babiker Awadalla (1917), and Alexander Siddig (1965). After him are Hemedti (1975), Salih Mahmoud Osman (1957), Abubaker Kaki Khamis (1989), Awadeya Mahmoud (1963), Almoez Ali (1996), and Ismail Ahmed Ismail (1984).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Sudan

Among businesspeople born in Sudan, Mo Ibrahim ranks 1. After him are Awadeya Mahmoud (1963).

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