39 years old- Serra Sabanci, $1.1 Billion

As board member and shareholder of Sabanci Holdings, Turkey’s largest industrial and financial conglomerate, Serra Sabanci is one of the world’s youngest billionaires and the 28th richest person in Turkey. She graduated from the University of Portsmouth and with honors from the Department of Economics of İstanbul Bilgi University. Serra also sits on the board of the family’s philanthropic Sabanci Foundation. She follows in her father’s footsteps as part of Sabanci Holdings. Her father, Ozdemir Sabanci, was gunned down in the heavily guarded office buildings by the leftist group DHKP-C, who hired assassins to carry out the murder in 1996.