The richest person in this year’s Forbes list is American investor Warren Buffett, who has a net worth of $62 billion, higher than Slim’s $60 billion and Gates’ $58 billion. Ingvar Kamprad and family of Sweden, at $31 billion, are in the seventh place. Russia’s Oleg Deripaska ($28 billion) is ninth and Germany’s Karl Albrecht ($27 billion) is tenth.

Lakshmi Mittal Mittal, valued at $45 billion, has gained $13 billion from last year, pushing him one place higher to the fourth rank this year. He is at the helm of the world’s largest steel making company, Arcelor Mittal, and holds a 44 per cent stake in it. He lives in London. K P Singh has been recognised at the richest real estate baron in the world. The listing of his company, DLF, last year helped his fortune jump to $30 billion from $10 billion a year ago. Among Indians, Mittal, the Ambanis and Singh are followed by Ravi and Shashi Ruia, the brothers who run the Essar Group. They have occupied the 43rd position with a net worth of $15 billion. Wipro chairman Azim Premji is 60th with a net worth of $12.7 billion. Sunil Bharti Mittal and family come 64th with $11.8 billion and Kumarmangalam Birla is 76th with $10.2 billion.

These are followed by Unitech’s Ramesh Chandra (86th with $9.6 billion), Gautam Adani (91st with $9.3 billion), Savitri Jindal (110th with $8.2 billion), Anil Agarwal (164th with $6 billion), Adi Godrej (178th with $5.5 billion) and GMR’s G M Rao (198th with $5.2 billion).

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