 Mukesh
D. Ambani
- Chairman & Managing Director
Mr. Mukesh D. Ambani, age 49,
is a Chemical Engineer from the University of
Bombay and pursued MBA from Stanford University,
USA. He is the son of Mr. Dhirubhai H. Ambani,
Founder Chairman of the Company.
Mr. Mukesh D. Ambani joined Reliance in 1981
and initiated Reliance's backward integration
from textiles into polyester fibres and further
into petrochemicals. In this process, he directed
the creation of several new and large world-class
manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies
that have raised Reliance's petrochemicals manufacturing
capacities from less than a million tonnes to
over thirteen million tonnes per year. He directed
and led the creation of the world's largest
grassroot petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, India,
with a present capacity of 660,000 barrels per
day (33 million tonnes per year) integrated
with petrochemicals, power generation and port
and related infrastructure. He had set up the
Reliance's communications technology initiative
which is the largest and most complex information
and communications technology initiative in
the world.
Mr. Ambani is steering Reliance's initiatives
in a world scale, offshore and onshore oil and
gas exploration and production program, creation
of a pan-India petroleum retail network and
setting up of a new exportoriented refinery
through RIL's subsidiary Reliance Petroleum
Limited (RPL) with a capacity of approximately
580,000 barrels per stream day integrated with
a 0.9 MMTPA polypropylene plant.
Mr. Ambani's Achievements include:
- Conferred 'ET Business Leader of the Year'
Award by The Economic Times (India) in the year
2006.
- Had the distinction and honour of being the
co-chair at the World Economic Forum Annual
Meeting 2006 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, November 2004.
- Conferred the World Communication Award for
the 'Most Influential Person in Telecommunications
in 2004' by Total Telecom, October, 2004.
- Chosen 'Telecom Man of the Year 2004' by
Voice and Data magazine, September, 2004.
- Ranked 13th in Asia's Power 25 list of 'The
Most Powerful People in Business' published
by Fortune magazine, August, 2004. 30 Growth
is Life
- Conferred the 'Asia Society Leadership Award'
by the Asia Society, Washington D.C., USA, May,
2004.
- Ranked No.1 for the second consecutive year,
in The Power List 2004 published by India Today,
March, 2004.
Mr. Mukesh D. Ambani is the Chairman of Indian
Petrochemicals Corporation Limited, Reliance Petroleum
Limited and Reliance Retail Limited. He is member
of the Shareholders'/ Investors' Grievance Committee
of the Company.
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