The chairman and founder of the Adani Group, Gautam Adani has become the world’s third-richest person. According to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires data, he has a net worth of $137 billion. The 60-year-old business tycoon trails Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos on the coveted list.
While Telsa chief Musk has a net worth of $251 billion, Amazon founder and CEO of Amazon – Jeff Bezos – has a total worth of $153 billion. Gautam Adani has surpassed Fresh business magnate Bernard Arnault, the co-founder of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, commonly known as LVMH, a world leader in luxury fashion.
As per the Bloomberg report, this is for the first time an Asian has made to the list of top three wealthiest people in the world. Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani and China-base Alibaba group’s Jack Ma, other rich Asians, they have not climbed this high.
With a $91.9 billion fortune Reliance Industries Ltd chairman Mukesh Ambani is at number 11 position.
The Adani group now owns India’s largest private-sector port and airport operator, city-gas distributor and coal miner. While its Carmichael mine in Australia has been criticised by environmentalists, it pledged in November to invest $70 billion in green energy to become the world’s largest renewable-energy producer.