Hisham Mackie

Hisham Mackie

Hisham Mackie (born 1969 in Freetown) is a multimillionaire Sierra Leonean businessman. He is by far the biggest diamond exporter from Sierra Leone, acounting for 51% of all official Sierra Leone diamond exports and the richest Sierra Leonean with an estimated net worth of US$ 87.0 million. His company, H.M Diamond has exported over 204 million U.S dollars worth of diamonds in past three years.

Biography

Hisham Mackie was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1969 to a Sierra Leonean-Lebanese family which has been in the diamond business since 1952. His father, a second generation Sierra Leonean-Lebanese, was among the first diamond dealers licensed by the Sierra Leone government during the early sixtees. Mackie did his secondary education at the famous and elite Bo School in Bo and graduated in 1986. After graduating from the Bo School, he went to England where he attended the University of London in 1987. Mackie joined the diamond business in 2002 as an export license holder.

External links

*http://awoko.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=1405&cntnt01returnid=15
*http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/diamond/2005/0224stilldull.htm


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