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Azim Premji

Indian business tycoon, investor (born )

Azim Hashim Premji (born 24 July ) is an Indian businessman and philanthropist, who was the chairman of Wipro Limited. Premji remains a non-executive member of the board and founder chairman.[4] He is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry.[5][6] He was responsible for guiding Wipro through four decades of diversification and growth, to finally emerge as one of the global leaders in the software industry.[7][8] In , he was voted among the 20 most powerful men in the world by Asiaweek.[9] He has twice been listed among the most influential people by Time magazine, once in and more recently in [10] For years, he has been regularly listed one among The Most Influential Muslims.[11][12] He also serves as the Chancellor of Azim Premji University, Bangalore.

Premji was awarded Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, by the Government of India.[13]

According to the Forbes&#;and&#;Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Premji's net worth is estimated at $ billion and $ billion, respectively, as of December [14] In , he agreed to give away at least half of his wealth by signing the Giving Pledge.

Premji started with a $&#;billion donation to the Azim Premji Foundation, focused on education in India.[15] He topped the EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List for [16] In , he dropped from the 2nd position in the Forbes India Rich list to 17th position after giving away a huge amount to charity.[17]

In December , Premji was ranked 19th on the Forbes list of India’s richest tycoons, with a net worth of $ billion.[18]

Early life and education

Premji was born in Bombay, India in an Ismaili Muslim family from Gujarat.[1][19] His father was a noted businessman and was known as Rice King of Burma.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, invited his father Muhammed Hashim Premji to come to Pakistan, he turned down the request and chose to remain in India.[20]

Premji has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Stanford University.[21] He is married to Yasmeen Premji.

The couple have two children, Rishad and Tariq. Rishad Premji is currently the Chairman of the IT business, Wipro.[22]

Career

In , Muhammed Hashim Premji incorporated Western Indian Vegetable Products Ltd, based at Amalner, a small town in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra.

It used to manufacture cooking oil under the brand name Sunflower Vanaspati, and a laundry soap called , a byproduct of oil manufacture.[23] In , on the news of his father's death, the then year-old Azim Premji returned home from Stanford University, where he was studying engineering, to take charge of Wipro.[24] The company, which was called Western Indian Vegetable Products at the time, dealt in hydrogenated oil manufacturing but Azim Premji later diversified the company to bakery fats, ethnic ingredient based toiletries, hair care soaps, baby toiletries, lighting products, and hydraulic cylinders.

In the s, the young entrepreneur, recognising the importance of the emerging IT field, took advantage of the vacuum left behind by the expulsion of IBM from India, changed the company name to Wipro and entered the high-technology sector by manufacturing minicomputers in technological collaboration with an American company Sentinel Computer Corporation.[25][26] Thereafter, Premji made a focused shift from soaps to software.[27]

Recognition

  • In , he has been awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award by the Government of India.[33]
  • In April , India Today magazine ranked him 9th in India's 50 Most powerful people of list.[34]
  • In , Premji was conferred with Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) – the highest French civilian distinction by the French Government.[35]
  • In December , Premji was cited by Forbes magazine as one of the "Heroes of Philanthropy list of 30 altruists" in the Asia-Pacific region.[36]
  • In , Forbes put Premji in the list of the world's most generous philanthropists outside of the US.[37]

Philanthropy

Azim Premji Foundation

  • In , he founded Azim Premji Foundation, a non-profit organization.[38]
  • In December , he pledged to donate US$2&#;billion for improving school education in India.

    This has been done by transferring million equity shares of Wipro Ltd, held by a few entities controlled by him, to the Azim Premji Trust. This donation is the largest of its kind in India. In March , Premji pledged an additional 34% of Wipro stock held by him to the foundation. At a current value of about US$&#;billion, this allocation will bring the total endowment from him to the foundation to US$21&#;billion.[39]

  • In May , the Azim Premji Foundation collaborated with the National Centre for Biological Sciences, and the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine for augmenting testing infrastructure to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.[40][41]
  • The foundation has warned against scam emails which claim to be from the foundation and falsely request donations.[42]

The Giving Pledge

Premji has said that being rich "did not thrill" him.[43] He became the first Indian to sign up for the Giving Pledge, a campaign led by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, to encourage the wealthiest people to make a commitment to give most of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

Sankaranarayanan Naseeruddin Shah T. Toggle the table of contents. Raised in an environment where business discussions were as common as family dinners, Azim imbibed the values of hard work, perseverance, and compassion from an early age. Pylee Subramaniam Ramadorai N.

He is the third non-American after Richard Branson and David Sainsbury to join this club.[44]

I strongly believe that those of us, who are privileged to have wealth, should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged.

—&#;Azim Premji

In April he said that he has already given more than 25 per cent of his personal wealth to charity.[45][46]

In July , he gave away an additional 18% of his stake in Wipro, taking his total contribution so far to 39%.[47][48]

The first Indian to sign the Giving Pledge, his lifetime giving now stands at US$21&#;billion.[49] In April , Azim Premji became the top Indian philanthropist.[50]

EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List

Azim Premji topped the list of "India's most generous" released by Hurun India and EdelGive on 10 November He donated ₹&#;billion in financial year –20 which is a fold jump from the ₹&#;billion donated in FY Education is the primary cause for his donations.[51] He retained his position in FY21 by donating ₹9, crore (US$&#;billion).[52]

Controversy

In , legal proceedings were initiated by a court in Bengaluru against Azim Premji for alleged corruption.[53]

See also

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