Gautam Adani was born in 1962 in Ahmedabad, India. He dropped out of university after two years of studying commerce. In 1981, he began managing his brother's plastics business and later started his own commodities trading business. He founded the Adani Group which includes various companies operating in ports, power generation and transmission, coal and mineral mining, edible oil and agri business, real estate and defence sectors. Adani has grown his business significantly since the 1990s economic liberalization in India and as of 2023 has a net worth of over $5 billion, making him one of the richest people in the world.