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Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (born 4 June 1959) is an Indian billionaire, businessman, chairman, and managing director of Reliance Group (a.k.a. Reliance ADA Group). The Reliance Group was created in July 2006 following a demerger from Reliance Industries Limited. He led several listed corporations, including Reliance Capital,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Reliance Infrastructure,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Reliance Power, and Reliance Communications.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Anil's net worth is currently estimated at $1 Billion as of June 26, 2025.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Ambani, once the sixth richest person in the world, declared bankruptcy before a UK court in February 2020.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He served in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India from Uttar Pradesh, as an Independent MP between 2004 and 2006.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was made MP with the help of the Samajwadi Party & the Congress Alliance.

Life and education

Anil Ambani is the youngest son of the founder of Reliance Industries, Dhirubhai Ambani and his wife Kokilaben Ambani. Ambani has said that his father would lead the brothers on "incentive-oriented outings" where they would be rewarded with a box of mangoes for a 10-km (6 mile) hike, but also punished them for acting out in front of guests.<ref name="sibling_rivalry">Template:Cite news</ref> He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Kishinchand Chellaram CollegeTemplate:CN and received a Master in Business Administration at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Business career

Ambani's father Dhirubhai died in 2002 without leaving a clear succession plan. After bickering between Anil and his brother Mukesh, their mother Kokilaben mediated and split the family-owned businesses between the two brothers.<ref name="Banerjee2019">Template:Cite book</ref>

Anil Ambani received parts of Reliance Group with interests in telecom, entertainment, financial services, power and infrastructure.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ambani is also credited with India's largest IPO, that of Reliance Power, which in 2008 was subscribed in less than 60 seconds, the fastest in the history of Indian capital markets to date.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2005 Ambani made his debut in the entertainment industry with an acquisition of a majority stake in Adlabs Films, a company with interests in film processing, production, exhibition and digital cinema. The company was renamed Reliance MediaWorks in 2009.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Ambani was featured as an empire builder in the Wharton school alumni magazine in 2006 .<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2008 a joint venture worth US$1.2 billion with Steven Spielberg's production company DreamWorks cast Ambani's entertainment business on to a global platform.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He has contributed to the production of several Spielberg films, including the Academy Award-winning Lincoln.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Ambani gained notoriety as one of the fastest destroyers of shareholder wealth in the last 100 years with the combined group market cap declining by 90% since the formation of the Reliance ADA Group.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In early 2019, a court in Mumbai held Ambani in criminal contempt for non-payment of personally guaranteed debt Reliance Communications owed to Swedish gear maker Ericsson. Instead of jail time, the court gave him a month to come up with the funds. At the end of the month, Ambani was bailed out by his elder brother, Mukesh Ambani.<ref name="sibling_rivalry" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In April 2019, three ADAG companies reached a standstill agreement with Franklin Templeton after secured NCD default. This led to SEBI changing mutual fund regulation of reducing unlisted NCDs exposure to 10% and making standstill agreement void. In aftermath, FT India didn't sell the pledged securities and wound 6 debt funds affecting 300,000 investors.Template:CN

In February 2020, Ambani was locked in a legal battle with three Chinese banks.Template:Which He was asked to set aside Template:USD by the court which led him to make the statement that his net worth is currently zero after considering his liabilities.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The dispute still rages on with the UK court ordering him to pay the banks to the tune of Template:USD.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In October 2021, Anil Ambani was named in the Pandora Papers along with his brother Mukesh.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In January 2023, the Bombay High Court questioned the Income Tax Department's accusation of tax evasion against Anil Ambani after a petition by him challenged the decision of the notice issued by the [[Income Tax Department|Template:Abbr department]].<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

Ambani belongs to a Gujarati family which hails from the village of Chorwad near Junagadh in the Kathiawar region of Gujarat, India.<ref name=itn>Template:Cite news</ref> He is the youngest son of the legendary textile entrepreneur Dhirubhai Ambani and his wife, Smt. Kokilaben Ambani, a devoted home-maker who founded the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in suburban Mumbai. Anil is one of four children. He has an older brother, Mukesh Ambani, and two sisters, Smt. Nina Kothari (wife of late Bhadra Shyam Kothari) and Smt. Deepti Salgaocar (wife of Dattaraj Salgoncar).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Anil Ambani is married to the actress Tina Munim.<ref name="ThakurtaGhosh2014">Template:Cite book</ref> He married her after facing much resistance from his family, because she came from the world of fashion and glamour, and her lifestyle choices before marriage had been unconventional. Nevertheless, the couple have had a stable marriage and have two sons, Jai Anmol Ambani and Jai Anshul Ambani.<ref name="dnaindia sons">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As of 2010, Ambani and his family reside at The Sea Wind, a 14-story building in Mumbai.<ref name=Go2BSchool>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 20 February 2022, Ambani's elder son, Jai Anmol, married Krisha Shah, daughter of the late Nikunj Shah, a Mumbai-based entrepreneur.<ref>Wedding of Jai Anmol</ref>

Awards and recognition

  • Conferred the 'Businessman of the Year 1997' award by India's leading business magazine Business India, December 1998.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Voted 'the Businessman of the Year' in a poll conducted by The Times of India – TNS, December 2006.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Voted the 'Best role model' among business leaders in the biannual Mood of the Nation poll conducted by India Today magazine, August 2006.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Conferred 'the CEO of the Year 2004' in the Platts Global Energy Awards.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Conferred 'The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award' by the Bombay Management Association, October 2002.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Awarded the First Wharton Indian Alumni Award by the Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) in recognition of his contribution to the establishment of Reliance as a global leader in many of its business areas, December 2001.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Selected by Asiaweek magazine for its list of 'Leaders of the Millennium in Business and Finance' and was introduced as the only 'new hero' in Business and Finance from India, June 1999.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Allegations of political connections

In 2018, India's principal opposition party, Indian National Congress, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of favouring Anil Ambani's defence manufacturing company over HAL, a public sector enterprise, in a fighter aircraft deal worth Template:INRConvert with French manufacturing firm Dassault. Ambani, several of whose companies are debt-ridden, has denied all charges of benefiting from crony capitalism. In factual terms, Reliance Defence stood to get just over 3 per cent of the Template:INRConvert Dassault Aviation offsets contract, contrary to the impression that it was to be the biggest beneficiary of the Rafale fighter jet deal.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In a possibly related controversy, one of his businesses partly financed a French film in which former French president Francois Hollande's then-partner had acted around the same time the aircraft deal was being negotiated.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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