Mukesh Ambani
Chairman and Managing Director
Reliance Industries Limited
Chairman
Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited
Reliance Petroleum Limited
Reliance Retail Limited
Mukesh Ambani is chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Limited, as well as chairman of Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited, Reliance Petroleum Limited, and Reliance Retail Limited. Mr. Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and initiated Reliance's backward integration from textiles into polyester fibers and further into petrochemicals. In this process, he directed the creation of several new and world class manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies that have raised Reliance's manufacturing capacities from less than a million tons to 13 million tons a year.
Mr. Ambani directed the creation of the largest and most complex information and communication technology initiative in the world in the form of Reliance Infocomm Limited. He also is steering Reliance's initiatives in a world-scale offshore, deep-water oil and gas exploration and production program, a pan-Indian petroleum retail network, and a research-led life sciences initiative covering medical, plant, and industrial biotechnology.
Mr. Ambani received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Bombay and pursued an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Ambani received the business leader of the year award by the Economic Times (India) in 2006; he was co-chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2006 in Davos, Switzerland; was ranked forty-second among the world's most respected business leaders and second among the four Indian CEO's in a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2004; received the world communication award for the most influential person in telecommunications in 2004 by Total Telecom; chosen telecom man of the year in 2004 by Voice and Data magazine ; ranked thirteenth in Asia's Power 25 in 2004 by Fortune; received the leadership award by the Asia Society, Washington, D. C., in 2004; and ranked first for the second consecutive year in the Power List 2004 by India Today.
Mr. Ambani is married to Nita, with whom he has three children.
