Home lists Top 100 most powerful Arabs 2022 Naguib Sawiris Managing director and CEO, Orascom Investment Holding Origin: Egypt Residence: Egypt Sector: Diversified In 2011, Sawiris created the world’s sixth-largest mobile telecommunications provider when he merged Orascom Telecom Holding, which he had founded, with VEON. At Orascom Investment Holding which Sawiris subsequently set up, he manages a diversified investment portfolio that mainly focuses on technology, media and telecom interests around the world. Apart from being the chairman of Ora which undertakes high-end property development, the global strategic business insights of the Egyptian billionaire has led to key advisory roles on global platforms including the New York Stock Exchange, the National Bank of Kuwait and the London Stock Exchange’s Africa Advisory Group.