Posts tagged women billionaires

Forbes recently released their list of the world’s youngest women billionaires.  Who made the list?

• Hind Hariri (Lebanon) – the youngest child of slain Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri.
• Yang Huiyan (China) – the daughter of Chinese real estate mogul, Yeung Kwok Keung.
• Begumhan Dogan Faralyali (Turkey) – the daughter of billionaires Aydin and Sema Isil Dogan.
• Serra Sabanci (Turkey) – sits on the board of family’s conglomerate, Haci Omer Sabanci Holding.
• Hanzade Dogan Boyner (Turkey) – sister of Begumhan and daughter of billionaires Aydin and Sema Isil Dogan.
• Vuslat Dogan Sabanci (Turkey) – sister of Begumhan, Hanzade, Arzuhan, and daughter of billionaires Aydin and Sema Isil Dogan.
• Chu Lam Yiu (China) – Chair of Hubao International.
• Dinara Kulibaeva (Kazakhstan) – Dinara with her husband Timur Kulibaev, also a billionaire, owns shares in Halyk, Kazakhstan’s third-largest bank,
• Filiz Sahenk (Turkey) – Filiz is an heir to Dogus Holding fortune.
• Margaret Magerko (United States) – Magerko learned about the lumber business from her father Joe Hardy, who opened his first lumberyard in 1952 and founded 84 Lumber in 1956.
• JK Rowling (United Kingdom) – Welfare mom turned Harry Potter scribe is the only author on Forbes’ billionaires list.
• Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag (Turkey) – The trailblazing daughter of Turkish billionaires Aydin and Isil Dogan and sister of fellow heiresses, Begumhan, Hanzade and Vuslat, Arzuhan.
• Zhang Xin (China) – She and husband Pan Shiyi (SOHO China’s chief executive and chairman, respectively) are one of China’s best-known business couples, renowned for their property developments’ sleek, modern style.
• Elena Baturina (Russia) – The powerful wife of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.  In 1991 she started plastic-products company Inteko, which produced furniture and crockery but
  has since expanded into construction and construction materials.
• Abigail Johnson (United States) – Johnson, with her family, controls Fidelity Investments, America’s largest mutual fund company.
• Susanne Klatten (Germany) – This trained M.B.A economist inherited stake in automaker BMW from her father Herbert Quandt, who rescued it from bankruptcy decades ago. She also inherited a 50% stake in pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturer Altana.
• Jean Pritzker (United States) – A filmmaker, Pritzker is the granddaughter of A.N. Pritzker, who, with sons Jay and Robert, created industrial conglomerate Marmon and hotel chain Hyatt.
• Nancy Lerner (United States) – The daughter of Al Lerner (d. 2002), who made billions in credit cards via MBNA and brought professional football back to Cleveland
• Winnie Jahnson-Marquart (United States) – Jahnson-Marquart’s father was Samuel Curtis Johnson (d. 2004), great-grandson of the salesman who founded floor wax company S.C. Johnson in 1886.
• Penny Pritzker (United States) – Barack Obama’s campaign finance chief is also the CEO of Classic Residence by Hyatt and chair of airport parking company The Parking Spot.

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