Mohamed Mansour

Mohamed Mansour is an Egyptian-British businessman, born in Alexandria in January 1948, who chairs the Mansour Group, the conglomerate founded by his father Loutfy Mansour. He served as Egypt's Minister of Transportation from 2005 to 2009 and was knighted in the United Kingdom in 2024. ¹

Mansour was born into one of Alexandria's most prominent business families; the group's assets were nationalised and confiscated in 1965 and the family rebuilt the business. ¹ He took an engineering degree at North Carolina State University in 1968 and a master's in business administration at Auburn University in 1971, teaching there until 1973. ¹ He is married with two sons and lives in Mayfair, London. No source consulted for this record states a religion for Mansour himself. ^{2 3}

With his brothers, Mansour built the group into the Egyptian distributor for Caterpillar, General Motors and McDonald's, leading it from his father's death in 1976 and founding its London investment arm, Man Capital, in 2010. ¹ In December 2005 he stepped back from business to serve as Minister of Transportation, resigning in October 2009 after a deadly train crash at al-Ayyat. ¹ He became chairman of the Right to Dream football academy in 2021, led the ownership group awarded the San Diego FC Major League Soccer franchise in 2023, and received a knighthood in March 2024 for services to business, charity and politics. ¹

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