Isabel dos Santos (born 1973 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) is the daughter of Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos. She is an Angolan investor.
[2]She is considered by Forbes to be the richest woman in Africa
[3] and the most powerful and richest woman in her country.
[4] In 2013, according to research byForbes, her net worth had reached more than three billion US Dollars, making her Africa’s first woman billionaire.

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Family and education

Isabel dos Santos is the oldest daughter of Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos and his first wife, the Russian-born Tatiana Kukanova, whom he met while studying in Azerbaijan. Her father's parents emigrated from Sao Tome e Principe. She studied electrical engineering at King's College in London. There she met her husband from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sindika Dokolo, a son of a millionaire from Kinshasa and his Danish wife. There were reports, that when they got married in Luanda, in December 2002, the wedding ceremony cost about US$ 4 million, with a special choir flown in from Belgium and two planes chartered to bring food from France. About 800 guests were present at the wedding, half of them relatives of the couple, and also several African presidents.

Business activities

In the early 1990s Isabel dos Santos returned from London to join her father in Luanda, starting to work for a German recycling company, then, set up a trucking business. Here the development of a walkie-talkie system paved the way for her subsequent foray into telecoms. In 1997, at the age of 24, she started her first own business by opening the Miami Beach Club, one of the first night clubs and beach restaurants on the Luanda Island. In the early 1990s, in Luanda, she started working as a project manager engineer for Urbana 2000, a subsidiary of Jembas Group, that won the contract for cleaning and disinfection of the city. Over a period of nearly 20 years she expanded her business interests continuously and this led her to create several holdings, in Angola and mostly abroad, and to make substantial investments in a series of prestigious entreprises, especially in Portugal.