Mukesh Ambani (born April 19, 1957, Aden, Yemen) is an Indian business mogul who serves as chairman and managing director of the Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), a multinational conglomerate with businesses across sectors such as petrochemicals, energy, textiles, retail, and telecommunications. With a net worth of $117.5 billion as of March 4, 2024, Ambani is Asia’s wealthiest person. He ranked among the top 10 wealthiest people in the world on Forbes magazine’s annual list of billionaires in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Ambani is one of four children of renowned Indian industrialist Dhirubhai Ambani, who first worked as a gas station attendant in Aden, Yemen. Because of the increasingly unstable political climate in Aden, where Mukesh Ambani was born, the family relocated in 1958 to the Bhuleshwar neighborhood of Bombay (now Mumbai), where they lived in a chawl (a communal building that commonly features low-rent two-room apartments). That same year Dhirubhai Ambani and a cousin founded the Reliance Commercial Corporation, which grew into RIL from a commodities-trading business that they initially operated out of a one-room rental space.