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The Richest Woman In Africa (2022)
Isabel Dos Santos with an estimated net worth of $2.2 billion is the richest woman in Africa. She is a businesswoman and the daughter of…
Who is Isabel Dos Santos?
Isabel Dos Santos with an estimated net worth of $2.2 billion is the richest woman in Africa.
She is a businesswoman and the daughter of the famous Angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos.
Today she owns several companies and businesses, her first business venture was on the opening of her Miami Beach in 1997.
Unitel S.A, Zon Multimedia, Banco Espirito Santo, Banco Portugues de Investimentos, and Energias de Portugal are her other stakes in different companies.
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Bio Data
Bio-Data | |
Full Name | Isabel Dos Santos |
Nationality | Angola and Russia |
Date of Birth | 20 April 1973 |
Age | 49 |
Gender | Female |
Profession | Businesswoman |
Marital Status | Married to Sindika Dokolo(late) |
Net Worth | $2.2 billion |
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Career
- In 1997 Isabel Dos Santos started creating companies and holdings in Angola and mostly abroad, thereby making substantial investments in high-profile enterprises, especially in Portugal. Still, in 1997, she opened Miami Beach Club which is her first business.
- In 2000, Isabel dos Santos started working as a project manager engineer for Urbana.
- she was appointed by her father as chair of Sonangol in 2016, the appointment lasted for two months after her swearing-in.
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Net Worth
With an estimated net worth of $2.2 billion, Isabel Dos Santos is the richest woman in Africa in 2022.
According to Forbes in 2013, Isabel acquired her wealth by taking stakes in companies and doing business in Angola.
Forbes also suggests that her wealth came almost entirely from her family’s power and connections.
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Personal Life
Isabel Dos Santos the richest woman in Africa is the daughter of the former Angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos.
She married Congolese art collector and businessman Sindika Dokolo in the year 2002 and they had a child together in 2013. Her spouse later died in a Scuba diving accident in Dubai in 2020 and she did not remarry since then.
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