Mukesh Ambani polevaults to 12th position as world's richest Indian with net worth of $59.4 bn after m-cap nears Rs 10 lakh cr

With Reliance Industries having overtaken British energy giant BP Plc to become the sixth-largest energy company in the world, the conglomerate is now valued at $138 billion. The surge in RIL shares gives its chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani a net worth of $59 billion, making him Asia’s richest person. Ambani now ranks as the 12th richest Indian across the globe, with a net worth of 59.4 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaire index . The top five people on the list are largely dominated by American business magnates. The wealthiest person in the globe on the list is Bill Gates, co-founder, Microsoft with a total net worth of $110 billion. Gates is followed by Jeff Bezos ($109 billion), founder, CEO, and president of Amazon.com; Bernard Arnault ($101 billion), French billionaire business magnate, and art collector; Warren Buffett ($86.40 billion) American philanthropist and investor, who is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; and Mark Zuckerberg ($74.10 billion), co-founder Facebook, internet entrepreneur and philanthropist.   The other Indians on the list besides Ambani are Azim Premji ($19.1 billion), founder of IT major Wipro who is ranked 56th; Shiv Nadar, ($15.6 billion), founder and chairman of HCL ranked 84; Uday Kotak ($14 bn billion), executive vice-chairman and managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank at 98th rank among the top 100 ranking. Lakshmi Mittal ($12.7 billion) chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaking company is ranked at 110th;  Radhakishan Damani ($9.72 billion, retail king of supermarket chain DMart at 159th; Gautam Adani ($9.34 billion), chairman and founder of the Adani Group at 165; Cyrus Poonawala ($8.28 billion),  chairman of Poonawalla Group ranked 195th;  Dilip Shangvi ($7.70 billion), founder, Sun Pharmaceuticals at 216th, Nusli Wadia ($6.68 billion),entrepreneur and the chairman of the Wadia Group at 265th; Sunil Mittal ($6.60),  founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises at 267th; Benu Gopal Bangur ($6.48 billion),  chairman of Shree Cement at 270th; Savitri Jindal  ($6.42), wife of founder Om Prakash Jindal at 275th, Kumarmangalm Birla ($5.96 billion), chairman of the Aditya Birla Group at 310th; Rahul Bajaj ($5./53 billion), chairman of Bajaj Group ranked 346th; KP Singh ($5.11 billion), chairman and CEO of real estate developer DLF Limited at 391th; and Vikram Lal ($4.50 billion), founder and former CEO of Eicher Motors ranked at 458.