Bin Salman is the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, the son of the King and the de facto leader of the Gulf state as King Salman is unable to fully rule because of dementia. Bin Salman is also the deputy prime minister and defence minister and has attempted to present himself as a moderate reformer. In , for the first time Saudi women were allowed to to travel abroad, register to marry or divorce and apply for official documents without the consent of a male guardian.
However, while Bin Salman has focused on his political career as leader of Saudi Arabia, Mansour has spent much more time on his personal business portfolio. Mansour heads the International Petroleum Investment Company, which has stakes in a number of businesses around the world.
The family has some 15, people, although the majority of the power and the wealth sits with around 2, of them. Mansour is the half-brother of the current president of the UAE and a member of the ruling Al Nahyan family. Bin Salman is married to Sarah bint Mashhoor - known as the 'Barbie Princess' - in , the couple have four children.
Manal, who has two daughters and three sons with Sheikh Mansour, is the president of the Dubai Women Establishment. Both Sheikh Mansour and Mohammed bin Salman have full access to the lavish presidential palaces where their families call home. His family also own and regularly stay at the Emirates Palace hotel, described as a 'seven-star' hotel in Abu Dhabi. From the exterior, the Chateau Louis XIV appears to be a 17th-Century chateau, constructed in a similar style to the nearby palace at Versailles.
He made his money in the oil industry, but has also invested in aluminium concerns among others. The American billionaire's main business interests are in the real estate, oil, rail and entertainment industries. Zhang Jindong is a Chinese billionaire who, through his company the Suning Holdings Group, acquired a majority ownership stake in Serie A club Inter in The Suning group is a retail business dealing in domestic appliances, but Jindong's other interests extend to the media and broadcasting sector, as well as sport.
Article continues below. Public Investment Fund. He came to prominence in the West when he bought Manchester City 10 years ago this month, but Sheikh Mansour's business interests - including investments in Virgin Galactic, Daimler and Barclays - meant his considerable wealth has reached far beyond football. A year after graduation, he became chairman of the International Petroleum Investment Company IPIC , which had been set up by the Abu Dhabi government in with a mandate to invest globally in energy and related industries.
In , it merged with another state-owned vehicle Mubadala Investment Company, which has a broader remit including industries such as real estate and aerospace. Initially, Sir Richard said he hoped to see a maiden flight by the end of but a launch date has been delayed several times, most recently by the death of a testing co-pilot in
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