Full name: Gautam Santilal Adani
Date of Birth June 24, 1962
Age: 60 years
Horoscope Cancer
Occupation: Industrialist, Businessman
Country: India
Height: 5 feet 6 inches (1.68m)
Marital status: Married
Spouse Come to Adani
Net value $138.6 billion
Place of birth Ahmedabad, Gujrat
Nationality Indian
Dad Chantilal Adani
Mother Shanti Adani
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Gautam Adani is an Indian billionaire industrialist and donor. Gautam Adani has become the fourth richest man in the world and the richest man in Asia and India.
Early childhood
Gautam Shantallal Adani was born on June 24, 1962, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Currently, she is 60 years old. He is the son of Shantal and Shanti Adani. His father was a modest textile trader. Its nationality is Indian.
Gautam Adhani has seven siblings, of which Rajesh Shantilal Adani, Vinod Adani, Vasant S. Adani and Mahasokh Adani are his brothers. His parents left the city of Tharad in northern Gujarat.
Education
He was educated at Sheth Chimanlal Nagindas Vidyalaya in Ahmedabad. Later, he enrolled in the University of Gujarat to pursue a Bachelor of Commerce, but left after the second year.
Career and professional life
Adani moved to Mumbai in 1978 when still young to work as a diamond sorter for Mahendra Brothers. His older brother Mahasukhbhai Adani bought a plastics factory in Ahmedabad in 1981 and asked him to oversee operations. This business eventually served as Adani's entry point into international trade via polyvinyl chloride (PVC) imports.
It began importing commodity polymers for small businesses in 1985. Adani established Adani Exports in 1988, the holding company of the Adani Group, now known as Adani Enterprises. The company initially traded agricultural and energy-related products.
When economic liberalization policies proved beneficial to his business in 1991, he began to expand into trading metals, textiles and agricultural products. Additionally, the Gujarati government announced the outsourcing of the management of Mundra Port in 1994, and Adani won the contract in 1995.
Adani created Adani Power in 1996. It is the largest private thermal electricity producer in the country. It has thermal power plants with a combined capacity of 4620 MW.
Adani began operating as a power generation company in 2006. It purchased Carmichael Coal Mine in Queensland and Abbot Point Port in Australia between 2009 and 2012. Adani won the global solar auction of $6 billion by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) in May 2020.
Adani Green will support the 8,000 MW photovoltaic power plant project, while Adani Solar will add an additional 2,000 MW of solar cell and module production capacity.
India's second busiest airport, Mumbai International Airport, was owned by Adani in September 2020 with a 74% share. Through a foreign special purpose company, the Adani family purchased Ambuja Cements and its subsidiary ACC from the Holcim Group in May 2022 for $10.5 billion.
Philanthropy
Gautam is the chairman of the Adani Foundation, funded by the Adani Group. Hence, it was founded in 1996. Moreover, apart from Gujarat, the Foundation operates in the states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
Similarly, in March 2020, he donated ₹100 crore (US$13 million) to the PM Cares Fund through his group's philanthropic arm, to fight the coronavirus outbreak. A contribution of ₹5 crore (US$630,000) was made to the Gujarat CM Relief Fund and ₹1 crore (US$130,000) to the Maharashtra CM Relief Fund.
Additionally, diversified conglomerate Adani Group, led by Adani, imported four ISO cryogenic tanks filled with 80 metric tons of liquid medical oxygen from Dammam in Saudi Arabia to Mundra in Gujarat. The group also obtained 5,000 cylinders of medical grade oxygen from Linde Saudi Arabia. In a Twitter post, Adani shared that every day his group provides 1,500 medical oxygen cylinders wherever needed in Kutch district of Gujarat.
Net Worth
Adani is a wealthy businessman who has earned a lot of money from his various businesses. According to Forbes and Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he has a net worth of $138.6 billion.
Relationship status
This billionaire is married to his wife Come to Adani . Together they have two children, both sons. The names of their sons are Karan and Jeet .
Body measurements
Adani is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs around 85 kg. His eyes and hair color has black same same shadow. Other body measurements are not available.
social media
Adani is active with the username@Gautam.adani on Instagram. Additionally, he is active on Twitter with the username @gautam_adani
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