Morocco’s King Mohammed VI
Age: 47
His kingdom’s gold is its near monopoly control of the world’s phosphate supply; Morocco holds two-thirds of the world’s phosphate mines and is the world’s biggest exporter of the mineral, which is used in fertilizer. Fortune up thanks to a fivefold increase in phosphate prices over the past several years.
Launched construction of an industrial park at Tanger-Med, which when fully completed in 2012 will be among Africa’s largest ports. Granted women more rights in 2004.


Married Princess Lalla Salma in 2002, the first Moroccan royal wife to be publicly acknowledged and given an official title.
Source: Forbes
