13. Aziz Akhannouch & family

GLOBAL RANK: 1,664

NET WORTH 2021: $1.9 billion CHANGE: +$900 million AGE: 60 COUNTRY: Morocco SECTOR: Diversified

Aziz Akhannouch is the majority owner of Akwa

Group, a multibillion-dollar conglomerate founded by his father and a partner, Ahmed Wakrim, in 1932. It has interests in petroleum, gas and chemicals through publicly-traded Afriquia Gaz and Maghreb Oxygene. Akhannouch is Morocco’s Minister of Agriculture and the president of the National Rally of Independents, a political party.