Name: Mukesh Ambani  Born:   19 April, 1957 Educational qualification:  MBA from Stanford University, USA Occupation: Chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Limited.

Mukesh Ambani

Achievements: 

1. Ranked 42nd among the World's Most Respected Business Leaders and second among the four Indian CEOs featured in a survey conducted by PriceWaterhouse Coopers and published in Financial Times,  London, November 2004. 
2. Conferred the World Communication Award for 'the Most Influential Person in Telecommunications' in  2004 by Total Telecom, October, 2004. 
3.  Ranked 13th in Asia's Power 25 list of 'The Most Powerful People in Business' published by Fortune  magazine, August 2004.    
4. Conferred the 'Asia Society Leadership Award' by the Asia Society, Washington D.C., USA, May 2004.
5. Ranked No.1 for the second consecutive year, in The Power List 2004' published by India Today, March 2004.
   

In 2010, he was named among the most powerful people in the world by Forbes in its list of "68 people who matter most" As of 2011, he is the second richest man in Asia and the ninth richest man in the world with a personal wealth of US$27 billion. In 2007, a strong rally in the Indian stock market and the appreciation of the Indian rupee boosted the market capitalisation of Reliance group companies, briefly making him the world’s richest man. According to Forbes Magazine forecasts, he is expected to regain the title of the richest man in the world in 2014.

Mukesh Ambani is the eldest son of Dhirubhai Ambani, the late founder of Reliance Industries. He has a brother, Anil, and two sisters.

The Ambani family lived in a two bedroom apartment in Bhuleshwar, Mumbai until the 1970s. Dhirubhai Ambani then purchased a 14-floor apartment block called 'Sea Wind' in Colaba, where, until recently, Mukesh and Anil each lived with their families on different floors.

He joined Reliance Industries in 1981. He initiated Reliance's backward integration journey from textiles into polyester fibers and further into petrochemicals, petroleum refining and going up-stream into oil and gas exploration and production.

Ambani set up one of the largest and most complex information and communications technology initiatives in the world in the form of Reliance Infocomm Limited (now Reliance Communications Limited).

Ambani directed and led the creation of the world’s largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, India, with a current capacity of 660,000 barrels per day (33 million tonnes per year) integrated with petrochemicals, power generation, port and related infrastructure.

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