Gautam Adani

Gautam Shantilal Adani is an Indian billionaire industrialist who is the chairman and founder of the Adani Group — an Ahmedabad-based multinational conglomerate involved in port development and operations in India. Adani is the president of the Adani Foundation, which is primarily led by his wife, Priti Adani.

• Ports tycoon Gautam Adani controls Mundra Port, India’s largest, in his home state of Gujarat.
• His $12 billion (revenue) Adani Group’s interests span power generation and transmission, real estate and commodities.
• Adani owns Abbott Point, a controversial coal mining project in Australia, whose Carmichael coal mine is billed as one of the world’s largest.
• In August 2018, Adani completed the $2.6 billion acquisition of Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Infrastructure’s power business in Mumbai.
• Adani has entered the petrochemicals sector in a $2.6 billion joint venture with Germany’s BASF and has also won bids to run 6 domestic airports.