Mo Ibrahim
3 May 1946 – present
Mo Ibrahim is a Sudanese-British businessman who built mobile telephone networks across Africa. Trained as a telecommunications engineer, he founded the consultancy Mobile Systems International in 1989 and the mobile operator Celtel in 1998, selling the latter in 2005. In 2006 he established the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which publishes an index of African governance and awards a prize for African leadership.
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Life events
Born into a Nubian family and raised partly in Egypt.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTook his first degree in Egypt before working for Sudan's national telecommunications company.
Studied electronics and electrical engineering in England.
His research concerned radio wave propagation for mobile telephony.
Led technical work at British Telecom's mobile arm during the early years of cellular networks in Britain.
Set up a consultancy and software firm that designed mobile networks for operators worldwide.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCreated an operator to build mobile networks in African countries that large carriers had avoided.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe sale valued the company at about 3.4 billion dollars.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe foundation created the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership and the Ibrahim Index of African Governance.
Source: en.wikipedia.org