Juliette Rossant



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Returning to New York, Juliette become a reporter for Forbes magazine. Because of her overseas experience, she was put in charge of the Middle East section of the Forbes "Billionaires List"... With the launch of the "Celebrity 100 List" in 1999, Juliette landed the "Celebrity Chefs" column... Juliette also wrote many other articles for Forbes on topics ranging from baseball to Czech funds...

Middle East Billionaires, 1995-2001

March 2005: The Onsi Sawiris Family and the Orascom Group

Onsi Sawiris & Family, Forbes, 1999 The Economist again honored Juliette's work in March 2005 with a second profile of one of her billionaire families, this time that of Onsi Sawiris family, whom Juliette started covering in 1997. See following articles:

February 2005: Rafik Al-Hariri (1944-2005)

Rafik HaririI interviewed Mr. Al-Hariri several times for Forbes and met members of his family. Below are listed articles on him for Forbes as well a new article on my blog superchefblog:

January 2005: Guler Sabanci and the Sabanci Group

Guler Sabanci The Economist honored Juliette's work in January 2005 with a profile of one of her billionaire families, that of Guler Sabanci of the Sabanci Group, which Juliette started covering in 1995. TIME then followed The Economist with a blurb of their own. See following articles:

Juliette Rossant and the Forbes Billionaires List

Suliman OlayanWhen Juliette returned to New York in 1995, Forbes assigned her to bring to life the Middle East section of the annual global "Billionaires List" (also variously dubbed the "World's Working Rich" and the "World's Richest People"). In additions to the rising and falling fortunes of Fortune, metrics tightened over the years, which also helps explain why some years are leaner than others.

Juliette doubled coverage from a working list -- Bahrain (Ahmed Ali Kanoo), Kuwait (Jassem Al-Kharafi [later Nasser Al-Kharafi), Lebanon (Rafik Hariri, Edmond Safra), Saudi Arabia (Muhammad Salem Bin Mahfouz [later Khalid Bin Mahfouz], Muhammad Abdul-Lateef Jameel, Suliman Saleh Olayan [now Khaled Olayan], Saleh Bin Abdulaziz Al-Rajhi, Ahmed Juffali, Saleh Abdullah Kamel, Abdulaziz Al-Sulaiman), Turkey (Vehbi Koc, Sakip Sabanci) -- -- to new countries such as Egypt (Onsi Sawiris, Mohamed Mansour, Mohamed Mahmoud Nosseir), Jordan (Abdulmajeed Shoman), and the United Arab Emirates or UAE (Abdulaziz Al-Ghurair).

Juliette also covered more billionaires, adding perhaps most importantly Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal. She also profiled Abdullah Sulaiman Al Rajhi of Saudi Arabia and Suzan Sabanci, Guler Sabanci, and Ferit Sahenk of Turkey.

Juliette also wrote for the Europe section of the Billionaires list -- please click here to see those articles.

(The following articles are those made available online by Forbes or others.)

Feature Stories on Middle East Billionaires

Annual Column on Middle East Billionaires

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