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Mounissa Chodieva

Chodieva, 30, is being dubbed Britain’s “first female oligarch”. If, as expected, the Kazakhstan-based Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) is floated on the London Stock Exchange this year, Chodieva will become extremely wealthy. Her father, Patokh Chodiev, is a one-third owner of the business and Mounissa owns an undisclosed share of the company, and is also head of investor relations for the group. The huge mines and metals conglomerate will be valued in the region of £3 billion. She was born in Uzbekistan but raised in neighbouring Kazakhstan, home to Sacha Baron Cohen’s comic creation Borat. Chodieva has been based in the UK since 1995, when she came to study law at Southampton University. She later joined a legal partnership as a solicitor. She lives with her sister, Nafissa, in a riverside apartment in London while their brother, Sabir, is also based in the capital. Unlike the so-called “Chelski” set of expat Russian oligarchs, known for their ostentation and high-profile socialising, Chodieva and the rest of her family keep themselves to themselves. “I prefer not to be in the limelight,” she says. Her stake should easily be worth £100m in a flotation.