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47 CEO TODAY AFRICA AWARDS 2020 Nigeria Aliko Dangote President & Chief Executive of Dangote About Aliko Dangote Aliko Dangote GCON is a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist who is the founder and chairman of Dangote Group, an industrial conglomerate in Africa. He has an estimated net worth of US$13 billion as of May 2020, making him the 85th wealthiest person in the world and the richest person in Africa. Dangote was educated at the Sheikh Ali Kumasi Madrasa, followed by Capital High School, Kano. In 1978, he graduated from the Government College, Birnin Kudu. He received a bachelor’s degree in business studies and administration from Al-Azhar University, Cairo. Firm Profile Dangote Industries Limited (Dangote Group) is a diversified and fully integrated conglomerate, with an annual group turnover in excess of $4.1 Billion. The Group started business in 1978, with a sole aim to provide local, value-added products and services that meet the basic needs of the populace. The Group currently has operations in 16 other African countries with a focus on building local manufacturing capacity to generate employment, prevent capital flight and provide locally produced goods for the people. Our current interests include cement, sugar, salt, flour, pasta, beverages, and real estate, with new multi-billion dollar projects underway in the oil and gas, petrochemical, fertilizer and agricultural sectors of the economy. Dangote Group has four listed companies on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) as part of its vision of being a world-class organization. They include Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc (DSR), Dangote Cement Plc (DCP), Dangote Flour Mills Plc (DFM) and the NASCON Allied Industries Plc. Since inception, the Group has experienced phenomenal growth on account of quality of its goods and services, its focus on cost leadership and efficiency of its human capital. Today, Dangote Group is a multi-billion Naira company poised to reach new heights in every endeavor. Dangote Group is striving for self-reliance in Nigeria in all the sectors where it operates and has drawn up ambitious plans to set up world- class projects in new realms such as Agriculture, Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals, fertilizer, and Telecom. The Group has almost single-handedly taken Nigeria to self sufficiency in cement and is expanding rapidly across Africa, helping other countries achieve the same. www.dangote.com