Multitasker At Reliance

NITA AMBANI, director of India’s largest company, the ₹7.93 lakh crore Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) and chairperson of Reliance Foundation, is the central thread connecting the family, the empire, and the succession architecture of flagship businesses.

- NEVIN JOHN

NITA AMBANI AGE: 59 Director, Reliance Industries & chairperson, Reliance Foundation

In the past year, she oversaw the making of the Jio Institute and the Jio World Centre (JWC) in Mumbai and spearheaded Reliance Foundation’s education and healthcare programmes, despite being caught up with marriages in the family and the birth of her first grandchild, not to forget the ongoing overseas expansion of the cricket business with the acquisition of a T20 team in South Africa.