Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (Gujarati: () ), born on 4 June 1959, is an Indian business magnate.

e. He is the chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, one of the largest private conglomerates. Anil's elder brother Mukesh Ambani, who heads as the chairman of Reliance Industries.[3] The Ambani family is the richest family in India and one of the richest in the world, their wealth inherited from Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of largest Indian conglomerate Reliance Group.[4] He is a member of the Board of Overseers at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.[citation needed] He is a member of the Central Advisory Committee, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission. In March 2006, he resigned. He is also the Chairman of Board of Governors of DA-IICT,Gandhinagar.[5]
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1 Career 2 Early Years 3 Awards and recognition 4 Personal life 5 Bibliography 6 References 7 External links

[edit]Career Ambani joined Reliance Industries, the company founded by his late father Dhirubhai Ambani, in 1983 as Co-Chief Executive Officer and is credited with having pioneered many financial innovations in the Indian capital markets.[citation needed] For example, he led India's first forays into overseas capital markets with international public offerings of global depositary receipts, convertibles and bonds. He directed Reliance in its efforts to raise, since 1991, around US$2 billion from overseas financial markets; with a 100-year Yankee bond issue in January 1997 being the high point, after which people regarded him as a financial wizard[citation needed]. He along with his brother, Mukesh Ambani, has steered the Reliance Group to its current status as India's leading textiles, petroleum, petrochemicals, power, and telecom company.[citation needed][citation needed] He is a close friend of movie star Amitabh Bachchan and Subrata Roy. One of his major achievements in the entertainment industry is the takeover of Adlabs, the movie production to distribution to multiplex company that owns India's only dome theatre and the recently announced joint venture worth US$ 825 million with Steven Spielberg.[citation needed] He has been embroiled in a dispute with his brother, Mukesh Ambani, over the supply of gas from the latter's KG basin. [citation needed] He recently topped Business Sheet's "world's biggest loser" list of business leaders who lost money in the late 2000s recession,[6]losing $32.5 billion in 2008, which brought him out of the top ten list to number 34 in 2009. [edit]Early

Years

Anil Ambani attended the Hill Grange High School on Peddar Road, Mumbai, along with his brother Mukesh Ambani[7] [edit]Awards

and recognition

Voted the 3rd most powerful person in India in the 2009 India Today Power List, in March.[8] Voted Businessman of the Year 2006 by Times of India-TNS poll[9] Adjudged as the CEO of the Year at the prestigious Platts Global Energy Awards for 2004. Voted as 'MTV Youth Icon of the Year for 2003' in September 2003. Conferred 'The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award' by the Bombay Management Association, October 2002.[citation needed]

Awarded the First Wharton Indian Alumni Award by the Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) in recognition of his contribution to the establishment of Reliance as a global leader in many of its business areas, December 2001. Conferred the 'Businessman of the Year 1997' award by India's leading business magazine Business India, December 1997.[citation needed]

[edit]Personal

life

Anil Ambani is Gujarati Indian. He is married to Indian Bollywood Actress Tina Munim and has two sons Jai Anmol and Jai Anshul.[10]He has taken part in the Mumbai Marathon race. Ambani is also a fan of Premier League club, Newcastle United and was extremely close to buying the club in September 2008. In June 2004, Anil was elected as an Independent Member of the Rajya Sabha - upper house of the Parliament of India. He is a vegetarian.[11]