Adani Group Chairperson Gautam Adani has now become the world’s second-richest person. According to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List, Adani’s net worth stands at $155.7 billion as of September 16, 2022, leaving behind Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Adani is now only behind Tesla’s Elon Musk, who remains the world’s richest man with $273.5 billion net worth.
Adani’s net worth has surged even as the shares of Adani Group companies (Adani Enterprises, Adani Port and Adani Transmission) hit their record highs on Friday (September 16) on the BSE.
In the calendar year 2022, Adani has added over $70 billion to his fortune, only one among the world’s 10 wealthiest people to have seen his net worth increase this year. He became a cent billionaire in April and surpassed Microsoft Corp’s Bill Gates as the world’s fourth-richest person last month.
Last month, Adani became the first Asian to break into the top-3 of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with a net worth of $137.4 billion, leaving behind in the ranking business magnate Bernard Arnault, who is the co-founder of luxury fashion chain LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, commonly known as LVMH. He was behind only Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the global ranking. Now, within a month, he grabbed the second spot leaving behind Bezos.
