Mukesh Ambani, in 2018, overtook Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma to become Asia’s richest person as he aimed to disrupt the e-commerce space in India. Ever since, Ambani has added close to $10 billion to his fortune as Reliance doubled its petrochemicals capacity and investors cheered the success of his disruptive telecom upstart Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
Here are the top 10 richest people in Asia.
Rank | Name | Country | Net Worth |
1. | Mukesh Ambani | India | $80.6 billion |
2. | Ma Hueteng | China | $53.0 billion |
3. | Jack Ma | China | $50.7 billion |
4. | Hui Ka Yan | China | $32.2 billion |
5. | Li Ka-shing | Hong Kong | $27.7 billion |
6. | Yang Huiyan | China | $27.2 billion |
7. | Wang Jianlin | China | $22.6 billion |
8. | Masayoshi Son | Japan | $21.2 billion |
9. | Lee Shau-Kee | Hong Kong | $20.1 billion |
10. | Wang Wei | China | $14.5 billion |
