HEART OF GOLD
Because
the second richest Indian with a net worth of $18.8 billion is also its most conscientious capitalist, increasing his philanthropic initiatives by 33 per cent in 2017, taking the corpus of funds under the family’s endowment trusts to Rs 78,000 crore—more than 63 per cent of his wealth
Because
having steered Wipro since the late 1960s, turning a $2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company into an Indian IT powerhouse with nearly $8 billion in revenues, he was reappointed chairman and managing director for two years in July 2017
Because
in October 2017, he received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy at a ceremony held at The New York Public Library, after becoming the first Indian to sign the Giving Pledge, a philanthropy movement started by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett