 Mukesh
D. Ambani
- Chairman & Managing Director
Shri Mukesh D. Ambani
is a Chemical Engineer from the University
of Bombay and pursued MBA from Stanford University,
USA. He is the son of Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani,
Founder Chairman of the Company. Shri 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.
Shri 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.
Shri 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).
Shri Ambani is also steering
Reliance’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.
Shri 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 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.
Shri 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.
Shri Ambani is the Chairman
of Reliance Petroleum Limited and Reliance Retail
Limited and a Director of Reliance Europe Limited,
and Pratham India Education Initiative.
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