Alwaleed vs Lisin

Kingdom Holding Company and NLMK.

The differences

Forbes puts Vladimir Lisin about $0.6B ahead of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud.Forbes figures from 9 Oct 2026 and 9 Oct 2026.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud: founded it. Vladimir Lisin: built it up.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud has signed the Giving Pledge; Vladimir Lisin has not.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud is from Saudi Arabia; Vladimir Lisin is from Russia.

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Alwaleed

Lisin

Net worth, Forbes: $24.9BForbes, 9 Oct 2026; $25.5BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
Net worth, Bloomberg: $26.3BBloomberg, 17 Oct 2026; $21.2BBloomberg, 15 Oct 2026
Forbes rank: No. 100Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026; No. 94Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
Billionaire since: Not stated; Not stated

How it started: Founded itFounded Kingdom Holding in 1980 after graduating from Menlo College, with a modest stake from his father; his best-known early deal was a Citicorp stake bought in 1991; Built it upBecame NLMK chairman in 1998 and, using profits from metals trading, acquired about 90% of the company by 2004
Main source: Kingdom Holding stock, a personal SpaceX stake and Saudi propertyBloomberg's largest items: Kingdom Holding ($10.3 billion), SpaceX ($6.04 billion), Saudi property ($4.5 billion) and Rotana ($1.55 billion); NLMK stockBloomberg: most of his fortune is his 79.3% NLMK stake; he also owns First Port and the baby-food maker Progress
Companies: Kingdom Holding CompanyKingdom Holding Company: Founder and chairman; NLMKNLMK: Chairman of the board
Biggest stake: Kingdom Holding Company78% owned; NLMK79.3% owned

Born: 7 Mar 1955; 6 May 1956Ivanovo, Russia
Country: Saudi ArabiaLives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; RussiaLives in Moscow, Russia
Education: Graduate degreeBS business administration, Menlo College (1979); master's in social science, Syracuse University's Maxwell School (1985); Graduate degreeDoctorate, Russian Academy of Economics; degree from the Siberian Metallurgical Institute (1979)
Parents: Son of Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, a son of Saudi Arabia's founder who served as minister of communications and of finance, and Princess Mona El Solh, daughter of Lebanon's first prime minister; Not stated

Giving Pledge: Signed in 2016; Not a signer
Foundation: Alwaleed PhilanthropiesUmbrella for Alwaleed Philanthropies Global, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia; in 2015 he pledged his fortune to it; Not stated
Lifetime giving: $4BAlwaleed Philanthropies, 17 Oct 2026. '$4 Billion+ spent on social welfare' by Alwaleed Philanthropies over 39 years, as shown on its site; not a figure for his personal giving alone; Not stated

Role now: Chair of the boardFounder and chairman of Kingdom Holding Company; Chair of the boardChairman of NLMK's board
Successor: None named; Talal Ibrahim AlMaiman is Kingdom Holding's CEONo other family member is listed among Kingdom Holding's executives; Not stated
Public office: None found; None found
Legal record: 2018: Saudi Attorney GeneralReleased in January 2018 after more than two months' detention in a Saudi anti-corruption crackdown; a senior Saudi official said he reached a financial settlement with the attorney general; hours earlier he had told Reuters he expected to be cleared of wrongdoing.; None found