Rakesh Mittal

Rakesh Mittal (#404)

Global Rank #404

Country Rank #18

Country India

Rakesh Mittal is listed among the world billionaires tracked by Iconic Billionaires.

$ 9 B
Telecom
India
M
70 Years

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Global Rank #404

Country Rank #18

Net Worth $8.8B

Previous Worth $8.7B

Worth Change +$0.1B

Country India

Industry Telecom

Age 70 Years

Gender M

Worth As Of May 3, 2026

Residence Delhi, India

Citizenship India

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Age 70

Source Of Wealth Telecom

Residence Delhi, India

Citizenship India

Marital Status Married

Education Bachelor of Arts/Science, Punjab University

Net Worth Change +$0.1B +1.1% from previous worth

Previous Net Worth $8.7B

Current Net Worth $8.8B

Worth as of May 3, 2026

About Me

Rakesh Mittal is a non-executive director of Bharti Airtel, one of India's largest mobile phone operators. It has more than 500 million customers across South Asia and Africa. Airtel, which has SingTel as its partner, competes with Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio and Kumar Birla's Vodafone Idea. In 2022, Google announced a $1 billion investment in Bharti Airtel,of which $700 million would be for a minority stake in the company. Their Bharti Global, run by his nephew Shravin, had invested in U.K. satellite provider OneWeb. In 2022, they agreed to merge it with Eutelsat in a deal that valued OneWeb at $3.4 billion. In March 2024, Indian-American billionaire investor Rajiv Jain's GQG Partners bought a $713 million stake in Bharti Airtel from SingTel.

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#372

Billionaires (2026)

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Bharti was set up in 1976 as a maker of bicycle parts.

Mittal and his two siblings have pledged $1.1 billion to their charitable foundation, mainly to set up a new university to provide free education for the poor.

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Current Net Worth: $8.8B (May 3, 2026)