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Mukesh Ambani - Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited

Mr. Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is a Chemical Engineer from the University of Bombay and pursued an MBA from Stanford University, USA. He is the son of Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani, Founder Chairman of the Company. Mr. Mukesh Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and initiated Reliance's backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals, petroleum refining and oil and gas exploration and production. In this process, he directed the creation of several new world-class manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies that have raised Reliance's petrochemicals manufacturing capacities from less than a million tonnes to about twenty million tonnes per year.

Mr. Ambani directed and led the creation of the world's largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, India, with a current capacity of 660,000 barrels per day (33 million tonnes per year) integrated with petrochemicals, power generation, port and related infrastructure.

Mr. Mukesh Ambani had set up one of the largest and most complex information and communications technology initiative in the world in the form of Reliance Infocomm Limited (now Reliance Communications Limited). He is also steering Reliance Group's initiatives in a world scale, offshore, deep water oil and gas exploration and production program, setting up of a second petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, development of infrastructure facilities and implementation of a pan-India organized retail network spanning multiple formats and supply chain infrastructure.

Reliance Solar Group is the solar energy initiative by Mukesh Ambani with focus on growth in the renewable energy segment. Mr. Mukesh Ambani has charted Reliance Solar Group as part of the road-map for value creation in the renewable energy space, as a natural extension of Reliance's conventional energy platform.

The Solar Group of RIL has already implemented a large electrification programme at the community and village level in Maharashtra in 2007-08.

Mr. Mukesh Ambani's accolades include:

  • Bestowed the US-India Business Council (USIBC) 'Global Vision' 2007 Award for Leadership in 2007.

  • Invited to be a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). He is the only Indian CEO to be a Council Member of WBCSD.

  • Conferred 'ET Business Leader of the Year' Award by The Economic Times (India) in the year 2006.

  • Conferred the Degree Honoris Causa, Honorary Doctorate by the Maharaja Sayajirao University in 2007.

  • Conferred the Penn Engineering Dean's Medal for application of engineering and technology in January 2010

  • Conferred the India Business Leadership Award by CNBC-TV18 in 2007.

  • Received the first NDTV-Profit 'Global Indian Leader Award' from Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Manmohan Singh in New Delhi in the year 2006.

  • Had the distinction and honour of being the cochair at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

  • Ranked 42nd among the 'World's Most Respected Business Leaders' and second among the four Indian CEOs featured in a survey conducted by Pricewaterhouse Coopers and published in Financial Times, London, in November, 2004.

  • Conferred the World Communication Award for the 'Most Influential Person' in Telecommunications by Total Telecom, in October, 2004.

  • Conferred the 'Asia Society Leadership Award' by the Asia Society, Washington D.C., USA, in May, 2004.
Mr. Ambani is a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry, Government of India and the Board of Governors of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. He is a member of the Indo-US CEOs Forum, the International Advisory Board of Citigroup, International Advisory Board of the National Board of Kuwait and McKinsey Advisory Council.

He is the Chairman, Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a member of the Advisory Council of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He is also a member of the Advisory Council for the Graduate School of Business of the Stanford University.