Lakshmi Narayan Mittal (also known as Lakshmi Niwas Mittal) is a billionaire industrialist, born on 15 June 1950 in Sadulpur, in Churu district of Rajasthan, India, and residing in Kensington Palace Gardens, London, UK. He is currently (2006) ranked the 5th richest man in the world, according to Forbes Rich List, with a worth of $23.5 billion, behind the likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Carlos Slim Helú.
He spent his first years in Sadulpur, living with his extended family on bare concrete floors and rope beds in a house built by his grandfather. His family, from the Marwari Agarwal caste, was not prestigious. They eventually moved to Kolkata where his father, Mohan, became a partner in a steel company and made a fortune. Lakshmi graduated from St. Xavier's College in Kolkata with a business degree in 1969. His classmates knew him as a sharp student who was good with numbers.
In 1994, due to differences with his father and brothers, he branched out on his own, taking over the international operations of the Mittal steel business.
Today he is chairman and CEO of the Mittal Steel Company NV, which is the world's largest producer of steel, with steel assets in Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, South Africa, Poland, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the United States, Ukraine and other countries. He was the Fortune European Businessman of the Year for 2004.
an estimated wealth of US$23.5 billion.
mighty mo wrote:he spent 60 million on his daughters wedding??
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