Mohammed Dewji “Mo” (Tanzanian businessperson) was born in 1975 in Singida (Tanzania - East Africa).
Mohammed Dewji studied his secondary education in Dar es-Salaam, high school in New Jersey, and International Finance and Business at Georgetown University (USA). In the U.S. he worked for JP Morgan Investment Banking;
In 1998, Mohammed Dewji returned to Tanzania to join the familiar business group: The METL Group (Mohammed Enterprises Tanzanian Limited), with activities in agriculture, finance, distribution, real estate, mobile telephony, or manufacturing;
Today, Mohammed Dewji is the CEO of the METL Group;
The METL Group represents 2% of the Tanzanian GDP (5 billion dollars) and more than 24,000 employees;
Dewji is the second richest in Tanzania (estimated net worth of 560 million dollars) and the first Tanzanian to appear at Forbes Magazine;
Mohammed Dewji also participates in politics. In 2005, he was elected to Member of the Tanzanian Parliament;
The MeTL group has created the MeTL Foundation, spending more than 2 million dollars in education, water supply, and health;