INDIANS in TOP 200 Richest People of World 2019

To our surprise, there is no woman from in the list representing India. We hope we see Indian women in the Forbes top 200 in the coming years...

1. Mukesh Ambani

ON FORBES LISTS #13 Billionaires 2019
REAL-TIME NET WORTH: $51.4B

Fast Facts:

  • Mukesh Ambani chairs and runs $90 billion (revenue) oil and gas giant Reliance Industries, among India’s most valuable companies.
  • Reliance was founded by his late father Dhirubhai Ambani, a yarn trader, in 1966 as a small textile manufacturer.
  • After his father’s death in 2002, Ambani and his younger sibling, Anil divvied up the family empire.
  • In 2016, Reliance sparked a price war in India’s hyper-competitive telecom market with the launch of 4G phone service Jio.
  • Jio has signed on more than 300 million customers by offering free domestic voice calls, dirt-cheap data services, and virtually free smartphones.
STATS:
AGE: : 62
SOURCE OF WEALTH: : petrochemicals, oil & gas
RESIDENCE: : Mumbai, India
CITIZENSHIP: : India
MARITAL STATUS: : Married
CHILDREN: : 3
EDUCATION: : Bachelor of Science in Engineering, University of Bombay; Drop Out, Stanford University

Anything and everything that can go digital is going digital. India cannot afford to be left behind. – Mukesh Ambani

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