Richest Lebanese In The World

Compiling the list of the richest Lebanese in the world is a notoriously difficult exercise. Many have tried and nobody seems to agree on both the Listees and their estimated fortune. Not because there are so many but simply because Lebanese wealth is often “hidden” and hence oblivious to the approach of magazines like Forbes who are good at estimating the fortune of Bill Gates (US citizens must disclose their assets + his Microsoft wealth is easy to estimate: number of shares x share price) but terrible at evaluating the wealth of, let’s say, African billionaires (who are hence rarely listed). The exercise is therefore much more complicated than Forbes’ simplistic approach that omits, every year, thousands of billionaires in its listing of the world’s richest. The below list was therefore carefully put together by the Middle East Wealth Report ®, itself using many different sources, techniques and approaches to peg Lebanon’s richest and their estimated fortune (whether them or their family, a trait specific to Middle East wealth).

1	Carlos Slim	US$72.5 billion	Lebanese by both his parents.
2	Al-Waleed bin Talal	US$20.5 billion	Half Saudi, half Lebanese.
3	Edmond Safra	US$12.5 billion	Safra Family.
4	Gilbert Chagoury	US$4.2 billion	Nigerian Lebanese.
5	Nicolas Hayek	US$3.9 billion	Hayek Family.
6	Robert Mouawad	US$3.5 billion	Mouawad Family.
7	Taha Mikati	US$2.8 billion	Brother of Najib.
8	Najib Mikati	US$2.6 billion	Brother of Taha.
9	Bahaa Hariri	US$2.5 billion	Brother of Saad and Fahd.
10	Issam Fares	US$2.3 billion	Fares Family.
11	Saad Hariri	US$2.1 billion	Brother of Bahaa and Fahd.
12	Manuel Moroun	US$1.8 billion	American Lebanese.
13	Alec Gores	US$1.7 billion	American Lebanese.
14	Carlos Haddad	US$1.6 billion	Brazilian Lebanese.
15	Hassan Sabra	US$1.5 billion	Israeli Lebanese.
16	Fahd Hariri	US$1.3 billion	Brother of Bahaa and Saad.
17	Joe Jamail	US$1.3 billion	American Lebanese.
18	Charles Corm	US$1.2 billion	Corm Family.
19	George Joseph	US$1.1 billion	Joseph Family.
20	Fred Mouawad	US$1.0 billion	Son of Robert.

Source: Middle East Wealth Report ®, 2014.

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