Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan | |
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Born |
Trucial States (now United Arab Emirates) |
November 20, 1970
Nationality | United Arab Emirates |
Net worth | US$ 38 billion (2014) |
Spouse(s) |
Alia bint Mohammed bin Butti Al Hamed (m. 1995) Manal bint Mohammed Al Maktoum (m. 2005) |
Children |
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Parents |
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Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates |
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Assumed office 10 May 2009 Serving with Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
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President | Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
Prime Minister | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum |
Preceded by |
Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
Minister of Presidential Affairs of the United Arab Emirates |
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Assumed office 1 November 2004 |
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President |
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
Prime Minister |
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum |
Personal details | |
Occupation | Politician |
Cabinet | Cabinet of the United Arab Emirates |
Religion | Islam |
House | Al Nahyan |
Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan bin Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan (born 20 November 1970), commonly known as Sheikh Mansour, is the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, minister of presidential affairs and member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi. He is the half brother of the current President of UAE, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
He is also the chairman of the ministerial council for services, the Emirates Investment Authority and the Emirates Racing Authority. He sits on the Supreme Petroleum Council and the boards of numerous investment companies including the International Petroleum Investment Company and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council.
Mansour also owns stakes in a number of business ventures, including Virgin Galactic and Sky News Arabia. He is also the owner of the privately held Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG), a specialist investment company that successfully acquired Manchester City Football Club in September 2008, and which has overseen a significant transformation at the Club since that time, most notably, the club have won two top flight league titles for the first time since 1968, City's first Premier League titles. On May 21, 2013, Major League Soccer of the United States announced that its second New York City Metropolitan Area club, to be called New York City FC, would begin play in the 2015 season, to be majority-owned by Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, in association with brothers Hal and Hank Steinbrenner.
Mansour was born in the Abu Dhabi emirate on 20 November 1970, the fifth son of the Emir of Abu Dhabi HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. His mother is Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi and he has five full-brothers: Crown Prince Mohammed, Hamdan, Hazza, Tahnoun, and Abdullah. They are known as Bani Fatima or sons of Fatima.