WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL AND INFLUENTIAL
PEOPLE
INTERESTING TO NOTE JUST 2 INDIANS IN THAT
LIST OF 50
NARENDRA MODI RANKED 6
MUKESH AMBANI RANKED 49
Mukesh Ambani took
over as the chairman of Reliance Industries when his father, the company's
founder, Dhirubhai Ambani, died in 2002. The enormous industrial conglomerate
generates $61 billion in annual sales from its interests in energy,
petrochemicals, textiles, natural resources, retail, and, more recently,
telecommunications.
Despite humble
beginnings, business magnate Li Ka-shing has become the wealthiest
man in Hong Kong, with a net worth estimated at more than $21 billion. After
his father died of tuberculosis, Li dropped out of school at age 16
to support his family, working in a factory making plastic flowers. Six years
later he opened his own factory, the predecessor to what's known
today as CK Hutchison Holdings, a vast business empire with
interests in real estate, manufacturing, energy, telecommunications,
and technology. A savvy investor, Li with his venture-capital fund
Horizon Ventures has backed companies like Facebook, Skype, Spotify, and
the egg-replacement food startup Hampton Creek.
Three years into his
second term as prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe continues to craft bold
plans for his country's future. At the forefront is a desire to bring the
excitement and innovation of Silicon Valley to Japan to jump
start the country's fading tech sector. In a recent visit to the US,
Abe met with tech titans like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to learn "how
we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan." This plan
comes on top of "Abenomics," the three-pronged approach the prime
minister implemented to boost Japan's economy upon starting his second term in
2012. On the same visit to the US in April, Abe also became the first
Japanese prime minister to address a joint session of US Congress, which he
used to push forward talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that
would bring together nations including Australia, the US, Japan, Mexico, and
Vietnam.
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Mukesh Ambani took
over as the chairman of Reliance Industries when his father, the company's
founder, Dhirubhai Ambani, died in 2002. The enormous industrial conglomerate
generates $61 billion in annual sales from its interests in energy,
petrochemicals, textiles, natural resources, retail, and, more recently,
telecommunications.
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Despite humble
beginnings, business magnate Li Ka-shing has become the wealthiest
man in Hong Kong, with a net worth estimated at more than $21 billion. After
his father died of tuberculosis, Li dropped out of school at age 16
to support his family, working in a factory making plastic flowers. Six years
later he opened his own factory, the predecessor to what's known today
as CK Hutchison Holdings, a vast business empire with
interests in real estate, manufacturing, energy, telecommunications,
and technology. A savvy investor, Li with his venture-capital fund
Horizon Ventures has backed companies like Facebook, Skype, Spotify, and
the egg-replacement food startup Hampton Creek.
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Three years into his
second term as prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe continues to craft bold
plans for his country's future. At the forefront is a desire to bring the
excitement and innovation of Silicon Valley to Japan to jump
start the country's fading tech sector. In a recent visit to the US,
Abe met with tech titans like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to learn "how
we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan." This plan
comes on top of "Abenomics," the three-pronged approach the prime minister
implemented to boost Japan's economy upon starting his second term in
2012. On the same visit to the US in April, Abe also became the first
Japanese prime minister to address a joint session of US Congress, which he
used to push forward talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that
would bring together nations including Australia, the US, Japan, Mexico, and
Vietnam.
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