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Gautam Adani
Born
Gautam Shantilal Adani

(1962-06-24) 24 June 1962 (age 62)
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
NationalityIndian
Known forFounder and chairman, Adani Group
President, Adani Foundation
Height167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
SpousePriti Adani
Children2, including Karan Adani, Jeet Adani
Websitewww.adani.com/About-us/Chairman-Message

Gautam Shantilal Adani (born 24 June 1962) is an Indian billionaire industrialist and philanthropist.[1] He is the chairman and founder of the Adani Group, an Ahmedabad-based multinational conglomerate involved in port development and operations in India.[2] Adani is also the president of the Adani Foundation, which is primarily led by his wife, Priti Adani. As of April 09, 2022, he is the richest man in Asia, and India surpassing Mukesh Ambani, with a net worth of US$112.9 Billion according to Forbes[3] making him the 8th richest person in the world.[4]

Early life

Adani was born on 24 June 1962 in a Jain family to Shantilal and Shanti Adani in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.[5] He has 7 siblings and his parents had migrated from the town of Tharad in the northern part of Gujarat.[6] His father was a small textile merchant.[7] He was educated at Sheth Chimanlal Nagindas Vidyalaya school in Ahmedabad. He enrolled for a bachelor's degree in commerce at Gujarat University, but dropped out after the second year.[8] Adani was keen on business, but not his father's textile business.[9]

Career

Secretary of State John Kerry greets Gautam Adani, 2014

As a teenager, Adani moved to Mumbai in 1978 to work as a diamond sorter for Mahendra Brothers.[10]

In 1981, his elder brother Mahasukhbhai Adani bought a plastics unit in Ahmedabad and invited him to manage the operations. This venture turned out to be Adani's gateway to global trading through polyvinyl chloride (PVC) imports.[11]

In 1985, he started importing primary polymers for small-scale industries. In 1988, Adani established Adani Exports, now known as Adani Enterprises – the holding company of the Adani Group. Originally, the company dealt in agricultural and power commodities.[11]

In 1991, the economic liberalization policies turned out to be favorable for his company and he started expanding the businesses into trading of metals, textiles, and agro products.[12]

In 1994, the Government of Gujarat announced managerial outsourcing of the Mundra Port and in 1995, Adani got the contract.[13]

In 1995, he set up the first jetty. Originally operated by Mundra Port & Special Economic Zone, the operations were transferred to Adani Ports & SEZ (APSEZ). Today, the company is the largest private multi-port operator. Mundra Port is the largest private sector port in India, with the capacity of handling close to 210 million tons of cargo per annum.[14][15]

In 1996, the power business arm of the Adani Group, Adani Power, was founded by Adani. Adani Power holds thermal power plants with a capacity of 4620MW, the largest private thermal power producer of the country.[16]

In 2006, Adani entered the power generation business. From 2009 to 2012, he acquired Abbot Point Port in Australia and Carmichael coal mine in Queensland.[17]

In May 2020, Adani won the world's largest solar bid by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) worth US$6 billion. The 8000MW photovoltaic power plant project will be taken up by Adani Green; Adani Solar will establish 2000MW of additional solar cell and module manufacturing capacity.[18][19]

In September 2020, Adani acquired a 74% stake in Mumbai International Airport, India's second busiest after Delhi.[20]

In February 2022, he became Asia's richest person, surpassing Mukesh Ambani.[21]

Personal life

Adani is married to Priti Adani.[22][23][24] He was abducted and held hostage for ransom in 1998, but was released without collecting the money.[25][26] He was in the Taj Hotel during the 2008 Mumbai attacks.[27][28]

Philanthropy

Adani is the president of the Adani Foundation, funded through the Adani Group. It was founded in 1996. Other than Gujarat, the Foundation operates in the states of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha.[29]

In March 2020, he contributed ₹100 crore (equivalent to ₹118 crore or US$14 million in 2023) to the PM Cares Fund through his group's philanthropy arm, to fight the Coronavirus outbreak.[30] A contribution of ₹5 crore (equivalent to ₹5.9 crore or US$710,000 in 2023) was made to the Gujarat CM Relief Fund and ₹1 crore (equivalent to ₹1.2 crore or US$140,000 in 2023) to the Maharashtra CM Relief Fund.[31]

Adani led diversified conglomerate Adani Group imported four ISO cryogenic tanks filled with 80 metric tones of liquid medical oxygen from Dammam in Saudi Arabia to Mundra in Gujarat. The group also secured 5,000 medical-grade oxygen cylinders from Linde Saudi Arabia. In a Twitter post, Adani shared that each day his group is supplying 1,500 cylinders with medical oxygen to wherever they are needed in the Kutch district of Gujarat.[32]

References

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  18. ^ Reporter, S. I. (9 June 2020). "Adani Green hits new high on winning world's largest solar bid worth $7 bn". Business Standard India. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  19. ^ "Adani wins world's largest solar project; to invest Rs 45,000 crore". The Financial Express. 9 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  20. ^ Karmali, Naazneen. "India's 10 Richest Billionaires 2021". Forbes. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
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  27. ^ Sazonov, Alexander; Shrivastava, Bhuma; Sanjai, P R (13 December 2020). "Billionaire Survivor of Ransom, Terror Attacks Now Rivals Ambani". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  28. ^ Shukla, Nimish (28 November 2008). "Gautam Adani felt safe in Taj toilet". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  29. ^ "Adani Foundation | Youth4work". youth4work.com. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  30. ^ Joshi, Manas (29 March 2020). "Gautam Adani gives Rs 100 crore to PM Fund to fight coronavirus". www.indiatvnews.com. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  31. ^ "Billionaire Gautam Adani commits to support fight against coronavirus". The Economic Times. 4 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  32. ^ My Nation. "To improve oxygen availability, Adani group imports cryogenic tanks from Saudi Arabia". Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd. Retrieved 11 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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