Naguib Sawiris

Naguib Sawiris (also: Sawires, Arabic نجيب ساويرس, DMG Naǧīb Sawiris, born June 15, 1954) is the Egyptian chairman and largest shareholder of the telecommunications company Orascom Telecom. He lives in Cairo, is married and has four children. His father, Onsies Sawiris, Orascom, the company built on. Naguib is the brother of Samih Sawiris and has another brother.

Sawiris, who belongs to the Coptic Church, attended the German Lutheran High School in Cairo and studied at the ETH Zurich later.

In March 2005 he bought by the holding company of Weatherford 65 % of wind from the Italian utility ENEL. The contract provides that by June 2006, the remaining shares in Weatherford. In the list of the richest people in the world by the U.S. magazine Forbes Sawiris is out with a fortune of $ 12.7 billion at No. 60; putting them as the richest person in Africa.

In 2007, a fundamentalist, Egyptian Sheikh issued a fatwa against Sawiris because he is said to have intervened in the headscarf debate derogatory about wearing of headscarves.

In the wake of the Egyptian revolution in 2011 he founded the secular- liberal party of the Free Egyptians to stop the collection of politics and society by the Islamist parties, Freedom and Justice Party and the Party of the light.

After the seizure of the Muslim Brotherhood Sawiris left Egypt in early 2013.