Kumar Mangalam Birla
Age: 41 years
Remuneration for 2008: Rs 20.14 crore (Rs 201.4 million)
Worth: $10.2 billion
Designation: Chairman
Group: Aditya V Birla Group
Other companies: Grasim, Hindalco, UltraTech Cement, Aditya Birla Nuvo, Idea Cellular, Birla Sun Life, Birla NGK
Background: A chartered accountant who earned an MBA from the London Business School, Kumar Mangalam Birla is ranked at No 78 in Forbes magazine's list of the world's billionaires. He inherited the business from his late father, Aditya Birla, at the age of 27.
Today, besides running one of India's biggest conglomerates, Birla also serves on the prime minister advisory council on trade and industry. In the past, he has been the chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India's committee on corporate governance and the chairman of SEBI's committee on insider trading.
Image: Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla. | Photograph: Sebastian D'Souza/AFP/Getty Images
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