Ahmed Abou Hashima bet $1 billion on Egyptian steel at 35 and became one of Egypt's most powerful industrialists
Billionaires Africa | 12.06.2026 14:50
The question most people ask about Ahmed Abou Hashima is the wrong one. They ask how a police officer's son from Cairo became one of Egypt's most powerful industrialists. The more interesting question is what he did between 1996, when he graduated from Suez Canal University with a commerce degree, and 2010, when he signed off on a $1 billion investment in a steel company that did not yet exist. The answer to that second question is the one that explains the first.
