Portrait of Rajan Mittal

Rank #402

Rajan Mittal

Net worth $8.8B

Telecom · India

Born
Jan 05, 1960
Age
66
Source
Telecom
Residence
Delhi
Citizenship
India
Marital status
Married
Children
0
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Punjab University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Rajan Mittal is vice-chairman of Bharti Enterprises, whose biggest asset is Bharti Airtel, one of India's largest mobile phone operators. It has more than 6500 million customers across India and Africa.
  • Airtel, which has SingTel as its partner, competes with Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio and Kumar Birla's Vodafone Idea.
  • In 2022, Google announced a $1 billion investment in Bharti Airtel,of which $700 million was for a minority stake in the company.
  • His brother, Sunil Mittal, is chairman of the company and its public face.
  • Their Bharti Global, run by his nephew Shravin, has stakes in France's Eutelsat and U.K. telecoms company BT.
  • Bharti was set up in 1976 as a maker of bicycle parts.
  • Mittal and his two siblings have pledged $1.1 billion to their charitable foundation, mainly to set up a new university to provide free education for the poor.
  • In March 2024, Indian-American billionaire investor Rajiv Jain's GQG Partners bought a $713 million stake in Bharti Airtel from SingTel.

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