Rank #221
Sunil Mittal
Net worth $13.5B
Telecom · India
- Born
- Oct 23, 1957
- Age
- 68
- Source
- Telecom
- Residence
- Delhi
- Citizenship
- India
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Telecom tycoon Sunil Mittal's Bharti Airtel is among India's largest mobile phone operators. It has more than 600 million customers across South Asia 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.
- Mittal's Bharti Global, run by his son Shravin, has stakes in France's Eutelsat, and U.K. telecoms giant BT Group, where Mittal has a board seat.
- 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.
- Mittal has been conferred the Padma Bhushan, one of India's highest civilian awards.
- 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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