Onsi Sawiris[1] (also written Sawires; Arabic: أنسى ساويرس;[1] Coptic: Ⲟⲛⲥⲓ Ⲥⲉⲩⲏⲣⲟⲥ) (August 14, 1930[citation needed] – June 29, 2021) was an Egyptian businessman.
[5] Sawiris died on June 29, 2021, in El Gouna, Egypt at the age of ninety-one due to kidney failure.
In 1952, Sawiris established his own construction company, Onsi & Lamei Co, which began as a road and waterways contractor.
In 1961, the business was nationalized under then Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and later became known as the El Nasr Civil Works Company.
The name was later changed to Orascom for Construction Industries, and the investment portfolio expanded in the 1980s and the 1990s to include tourism, hospitality, computing, and cell phone networks, under the government of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.