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As of 2016, Ambani was ranked as the 36th richest person in the world and has consistently held the title of India’s richest person on Forbes magazine’s list for the past ten years. He is the only Indian businessman on Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful people.
Mukesh Ambani is the 2nd biggest donor of India
Mumbai: Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, is the India's 2nd most generous philanthropist. According to the EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2025, Mukesh Ambani donated a total of Rs 407 crore in the last year and thus became the 2nd biggest philanthropist of India.
Mukesh Ambani was born on 19 April 1957 in the British Crown colony of Aden (present-day Yemen) into a Gujarati Hindu family to Dhirubhai Ambani and Kokilaben Ambani. His father was the founder and CEO of Reliance Industries, currently the largest public company in India by market capitalization.
Mukesh has a younger brother Anil Ambani and two sisters, Nina Bhadrashyam Kothari and Dipti Dattaraj Salgaonkar.
Mukesh Ambani lived only briefly in Yemen because his father decided to move back to India in 1958 to start a trading business in spices and textiles. Textile business was originally named "Vimal" but later was changed to "Only Vimal".
His family lived in a modest two-bedroom apartment in Bhuleshwar, Mumbai, until the 1970s. The family's financial status slightly improved when they moved to India but Ambani still lived in a communal society, used public transportation, and never received an allowance.
Dhirubhai later purchased a 14-floor apartment block called 'Sea Wind' in Colaba, where Ambani and his brother lived with their families on different floors.
After his schooling, Mukesh Ambani studied at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai. He then received a BE degree in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology.
Ambani later enrolled for an MBA at Stanford University but withdrew in 1980 to help his father build Reliance.
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Mukesh Ambani set up Reliance Infocomm Limited (later Reliance Communications Limited), which was focused on information and communications technology initiatives. At the age of 24, Mukesh was given charge of the construction of Patalganga petrochemical plant when the company was heavily investing in oil refinery and petrochemicals.
Mukesh Ambani directed and led the creation of the world's largest grassroots petroleum refinery in Jamnagar, India, which could produce 660,000 barrels per day.
He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for engineering and business leadership in oil refineries, petrochemical products, and related industries.
As of 2015, Mukesh Ambani ranked fifth among India's philanthropists, according to China's Hurun Research Institute. He was appointed as a Director of Bank of America and became the first non-American to be on its board.
As of 2016, Ambani was ranked as the 36th richest person in the world and has consistently held the title of India's richest person on Forbes magazine's list for the past ten years. He is the only Indian businessman on Forbes' list of the world's most powerful people.
Mukesh Ambani also owns the Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians and is the founder of the Indian Super League, a football league in India.
