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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Indian business tycoon, investor (born 1945)



Azim Premji
Premji at the World Economic Forum, 2013
Born
Azim Hashim Premji

(1945-07-24) 24 July 1945 (age 78)

Bombay, Bombay presidency, British India[1]
NationalityIndianAlma materStanford University (B.S.E)[2]OccupationFounder
Chairman of wiproChildrenRishad Premji, Tariq Premji[3]Signature

Azim Hashim Premji (born 24 July 1945) 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 2010, he
was voted among the 20 most powerful men in the world by Asiaweek.[9] He has
twice been listed among the 100 most influential people by Time magazine, once
in 2004 and more recently in 2011.[10] For years, he has been regularly listed
one among The 500 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 $9.3 billion and $25 billion, respectively, as of February
2023.[14] In 2013, he agreed to give away at least half of his wealth by signing
the Giving Pledge. Premji started with a $2.2 billion donation to the Azim
Premji Foundation, focused on education in India.[15] He topped the EdelGive
Hurun India Philanthropy List for 2020.[16] In 2019, he dropped from the 2nd
position in the Forbes India Rich list to 17th position after giving away a huge
amount to charity.[17]


EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

Premji was born in Bombay, India in an Kutchi Indian Muslim Shia Islam family
from Gujarat.[1][18] 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.[19]

Premji has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Stanford
University.[20] He is married to Yasmeen Premji. The couple have two children,
Rishad and Tariq. Rishad Premji is currently the chief strategy officer of IT
business, Wipro.[21]


CAREER

In 1945, 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 787, a byproduct of oil manufacture.[22] In 1966, on the
news of his father's death, the then 21-year-old Azim Premji returned home from
Stanford University, where he was studying engineering, to take charge of
Wipro.[23] 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
1980s, 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.[24][25] Thereafter, Premji made a focused
shift from soaps to software.[26]


RECOGNITION

 * Premji has been recognised by Business Week as one of the "Greatest
   Entrepreneurs" for being responsible for Wipro emerging as one of the world's
   fastest growing companies.[27]
 * In 2000, he was conferred an honorary doctorate by the Manipal Academy of
   Higher Education. In 2006, Azim Premji was awarded Lakshya Business Visionary
   by National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai.[28]
 * In 2005, the Government of India honoured him with the title of Padma Bhushan
   for his outstanding work in trade and commerce.[29]
 * In 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Wesleyan University in
   Middletown, Connecticut for his outstanding philanthropic work.[30] In 2015,
   Mysore University conferred an honorary doctorate on him.[31]
 * In 2011, he has been awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian
   award by the Government of India.[32]
 * In April 2017, India Today magazine ranked him 9th in India's 50 Most
   powerful people of 2017 list.[33]
 * In 2018, 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.[34]
 * In December 2019, Premji was cited by Forbes magazine as one of the "Heroes
   of Philanthropy list of 30 altruists" in the Asia-Pacific region.[35]
 * In 2019, Forbes put Premji in the list of the world's most generous
   philanthropists outside of the US.[36]


PHILANTHROPY


AZIM PREMJI FOUNDATION

 * In 2001, he founded Azim Premji Foundation, a non-profit organization.[37]
 * In December 2010, he pledged to donate US$2 billion for improving school
   education in India. This has been done by transferring 213 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
   2019, Premji pledged an additional 34% of Wipro stock held by him to the
   foundation. At a current value of about US$7.5 billion, this allocation will
   bring the total endowment from him to the foundation to US$21 billion.[38]
 * In May 2020, 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.[39][40]
 * The foundation has warned against scam emails which claim to be from the
   foundation and falsely request donations.[41]


THE GIVING PLEDGE

Premji has said that being rich "did not thrill" him.[42] 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. He is the third non-American after
Richard Branson and David Sainsbury to join this club.[43]

> 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 2013 he said that he has already given more than 25 per cent of his
personal wealth to charity.[44][45]

In July 2015, he gave away an additional 18% of his stake in Wipro, taking his
total contribution so far to 39%.[46][47]

The first Indian to sign the Giving Pledge, his lifetime giving now stands at
US$21 billion.[48] In April 2019, Azim Premji became the top Indian
philanthropist.[49]


EDELGIVE HURUN INDIA PHILANTHROPY LIST

Azim Premji topped the list of "India's most generous" released by Hurun India
and EdelGive on 10 November 2020. He donated ₹79.04 billion in financial year
2019–20 which is a 17-fold jump from the ₹4.53 billion donated in FY19.
Education is the primary cause for his donations.[50] He retained his position
in FY21 by donating ₹9,713 crore (US$1.33 billion).[51]


SEE ALSO

 * List of billionaires


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2001
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2002
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2003
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2004
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2005
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2006
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2007
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2008
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 * S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
 * Yuli Vorontsov
 * Sunita Williams
 * Ji Xianlin

2009
 * Isher Judge Ahluwalia
 * Inderjit Kaur Barthakur
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 * Abhinav Bindra
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