穆罕默德·阿毛迪
国籍：沙特阿拉伯；财源：石油；净资产：123亿美元
他是沙特阿拉伯国家的第二富豪。作为沙特公民，阿毛迪仍不忘自己身上的埃塞俄比亚血统（他父亲是沙特人，母亲是埃塞俄比亚人）。他对这个曾经饱受战火摧残的国家投入资金，兴办有一座金矿、一家五星级宾馆，还有一个大型农场。农场中种植水稻、玉米及其他一些作物，产品出口至沙特阿拉伯。上世纪70年代起，阿毛迪开始在瑞典进行投资。他在瑞典的主要资产包括在非洲生产原油的瑞典石油勘探公司，以及普利姆炼油厂。

Sheikh Al Amoudi has been ranked in the 100 richest persons by Forbes since at least 2006. In 2008, Forbes ranked Mohammed Al Amoudi as the 97th richest person in the world with a net worth of $9 billion. In the latest survey in 2011, he is ranked #63 with a valuation of $12.3billion, making him the second richest Saudi after Prince Waleed bin Talal

Al Amoudi's father is Hadhrami Yemeni and his mother is Ethiopian. He immigrated to Saudi Arabia in 1965 and became a Saudi citizen. His wife is Sofia Saleh Al Amoudi who is a shareholder of Midroc Construction.

Al Amoudi made his fortune in construction and real estate before branching out to buy oil refineries in Sweden and Morocco. He is said to be the largest foreign investor in both Sweden and Ethiopia. He holds an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the Addis Ababa University and has been honoured with the Order of the Polar Star by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

Business activity

Al Amoudi started investing in Sweden in the 1970s. His construction company Midroc won an important contract to build Saudi Arabia's estimated $30bn nationwide underground oil storage complex in 1988. His business interests in Ethiopia produce rice, corn and other staples on thousands of acres and he also owns a gold mine in Ethiopia, oil refineries in Morocco and Sweden and oil fields off West Africa. His Addis Ababa Sheraton is said to be among the finest hotels in Africa.

Al Amoudi owns a broad portfolio of businesses not only in oil but also in mining, agriculture, hotels, hospitals, finance, operations and maintenance. His businesses are largely to be found within two conglomerate holding and operating companies, Corral Petroleum Holdings and MIDROC (Mohammed International Development Research and Organization Companies), which he owns and manages. He employs over 40,000 people through these companies.He has recently pledged $250 million to finance factory to build Saudi Arabia's first car, to be called Gazal 1.

Charitable Donations

Sheikh Al Amoudi has endowed the Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi Center for Breast Cancer Research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology [KAUST] which was launched on July 4th, 2010. In addition to the Chair in Breast Cancer, the Sheikh has also funded Chairs at KAUST in Biomedical Practice Ethics, Diabetic Foot Research, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever and Water Networks Research.

Al Amoudi was named as one of the Clinton Foundation Donors, according to information released as part of an obligation placed on former President Clinton when he supported Hillary Clinton's nomination as Secretary of State. Al Amoudi is reported to have donated between $1,000,001 to $5,000,000.^[11] He has also made donations to hospitals, NGOs and other causes in Ethiopia.

Al Amoudi was jointly honoured by the World Bank and State Department for his work in supporting African development. This was the first time that the World Bank had hosted such an event for a private sector investor.

Commitment to Ethiopia

Al Amoudi has focused investment on Ethiopia since the mid-1980s. MIDROC Ethiopia was created in 1994. He is committed to Ethiopia, especially to job creation and infrastructure capacity building, and is well known as a philanthropist in his country of birth. He has built a 140-bed health care facility and supports visual impairment, disabled, children's health and poverty alleviation programmes.

In the education arena, he provides overseas scholarships and is a patron of the Ethiopian arts. Al Amoudi has sponsored the CECAFA Cup, Africa's oldest cup competition for the last three years, during which time the football tournament has been known as the Al Amoudi Senior Challenge Cup.

In October 2009, Addis Fortune reported that the al-Amoudi-owned Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc planned to develop up to 500,000 hectares (1,200,000 acres) of Ethiopian land for sugar, edible oil, and grain production.The company had reportedly purchased $80 million in equipment from Caterpillar Inc.

Reputation

As of October 2007, Mohammed Al Amoudi had become the subject of e-mail spam, in which an ostensible ex-wife claimed to have access to Al Amoudi's fortune.

On 8th December 2010 the Sheikh issued Particulars of Claim in the British High Court for libel against Elias Kifle of the Ethiopian Review claiming damages for libel and an injunction "to restrain the Defendant howsoever from further publishing or causing to be published the words complained of or any other words to the same or any similar effect defamatory of the Claimant." Elias Kifle failed to meet a deadline for filing a defence and, on January 27th, 2011, the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice ordered a default judgement against the defendant.

There have been occasional unwarranted defamatory claims about the Sheikh on the internet which have been pointed out by the Sheikh's legal counsel to be fabrications, generated for political reasons or for other purposes.

Within African-American popular culture, the Sheikh is sometimes pointed out as a self-made man who offers a positive role model for black American youth