Azim Premji
Azim Premji is the chairman Wipro, India's second largest software firm after Tata Consultancy Services.
Premji is credited with transforming Wipro, his family's vegetable oil business, into one of the world's foremost software company.
Although one of the richest Indians, he flies economy class and is happiest when hiking, reading or discussing the foundation he has set up to promote primary education.
Image: Wipro chairman Azim Premji. | Photograph: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images
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