Prince Alwaleed the world’s most powerful Arab

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed has topped the Arabian Business Power 500 for the ninth consecutive year.

The Kingdom Holding chairman took pole position in the Arabian Business annual countdown of the world’s most influential Arabs – just ahead of Emirates Airline chairman Sheikh Ahmed.

See the full list of the world’s 500 most powerful Arabs here.

The Olympic double gold champion Mo Farah was the highest ranked new entry in third place, one slot ahead of Emaar boss Mohamed Alabbar.  Twitter’s operations chief Mazen Rawashdeh was the second highest new entry at number five.