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Indian steel magnate (born )

Lakshmi Niwas Mittal (Hindi:[ˈləkʃminɪˈʋaːsˈmɪtːəl]^ⓘ; born 15 June in Sadulpur,^[7]Rajasthan, India) is an Indian-born British steel magnate,^[8] based in the United Kingdom. He is the executive chairman of ArcelorMittal, the world's second largest steelmaking company,^[9] as well as chairman of stainless steel manufacturer Aperam.^[10] Mittal owns 38% of ArcelorMittal and holds a 3% stake in EFL Championship side Queens Park Rangers.^[11]

In , Forbes ranked Mittal as the third-richest person in the world, making him the first Indian citizen to be ranked in the top ten in the publication's annual list of the world's richest people.^[12][13] He was ranked the sixth-richest person in the world by Forbes in , but dropped to 82nd place in March ,^[14] and only to th by October ^[15] He is also the "57th-most powerful person" of the 72 individuals named in Forbes' "Most Powerful People" list for ^[16] His daughter Vanisha Mittal's wedding (in ) was the second-most expensive in recorded history.^[17]

Mittal has been a member of the board of directors of Goldman Sachs since ^[18] He sits on the World Steel Association's executive committee,^[19] and is a member of the Global CEO Council of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries,^[19] the Foreign Investment Council in Kazakhstan,^[19] the World Economic Forum's International Business Council,^[19] and the European Round Table of Industrialists.^[19] He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Cleveland Clinic.^[19]

In , The Sunday Times named him "Business Person of ", the Financial Times named him "Person of the Year", and Time magazine named him "International Newsmaker of the Year ".^[19] In , Time magazine included him in their "Time " list.^[20]

Early life and career

Mittal was born in a Marwari Hindu family.

He studied at Shri Daulatram Nopany Vidyalaya, Calcutta from to ^[21] He graduated from St. Xavier's College, affiliated to the University of Calcutta, with a degree in the first class.

Lakshmi's father, Mohanlal Mittal, ran a steel business, Nippon Denro Ispat.^[22] In , because of the curb of steel production by the Indian government, the year-old Mittal opened his first steel factory PT Ispat Indo in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia.^[23][24]

In Mittal purchased the state-owned steel works in Trinidad and Tobago, which were operating at an enormous loss.

He turned them into profitable ventures in a year.^[25][26]

Until the s, the family's main assets in India were a cold-rolling mill for sheet steels in Nagpur and an alloy steels plant near Pune. Today, the family business, including a large integrated steel plant near Mumbai, is run by his younger brothers Pramod Mittal and Vinod Mittal, but Lakshmi has no connection with it.^[27]

In Mittal purchased the Irish Steel plant based in Cork, Ireland, from the government for a nominal fee of IR£1.^[28] Only six years later in it was closed, leaving over people redundant.^[28] Subsequent environmental issues at the site have been a cause for criticism.

The Irish government sought a High Court judgement that Mittal's company should contribute to the cost of the clean-up of Cork Harbour, but failed.^[29] The clean up was expected to cost €70&#;million.^[30]

Prior to December , Mittal had acquired assets which he renamed Ispat Mexicana and his Kazakhstani operation Ispat Karmet.

That month he renamed Sidex Galati to Ispat Sidex,^[31] which he had acquired in November ^[32]

In October , the LNM Group succeeded in concluding the $ million transaction to pry loose the Romanian government from the control of steel assets Siderurgica Hunedoara and Petrotub Roman, the day after it took over the PHS Steel Group which include Huta Sendzimira, Huta Katowice, Huta Florian and Huta Cedler from the Polish government.^[33][34]

Petrotub Roman was renamed Ispat Tepro in the sequel.^[35]

Mittal successfully employed Marek Dochnal's consultancy to influence Polish officials in the privatisation of PHS steel group, which was then Poland's largest.

Dochnal was later arrested for bribing Polish officials on behalf of Russian agents in a separate affair.^[36] In March , the Polish government said it wanted to renegotiate the sale to ArcelorMittal.^[34]

Employees of Mittal have accused him of allowing "slave labour" conditions after multiple fatalities in his mines.^[37] For example, during December , 23 miners died in explosions in his mines in Kazakhstan caused by faulty gas detectors.^[38]

In –07, Mittal succeeded in a hostile takeover bid for Arcelor, which he renamed Arcelor Mittal.

In so doing he obtained control of amongst others the Usinor steel assets of France, the Arbed steel assets of Luxembourg, and the Aceralia steel assets of Spain.^[26]

Controversies

The Mittal Affair: "Cash for Influence"

In , Plaid CymruMPAdam Price obtained a letter written by Tony Blair to the Romanian Government in support of Mittal's LNM Group steel company, which was in the process of bidding to buy Romania's state-owned industry.^[39][40][41] This revelation caused controversy, because Mittal had given £, to the British Labour Party the previous year.

Although Blair defended his letter as simply "celebrating the success" of a British company, he was criticised because LNM was registered in the Dutch Antilles and employed less than 1% of its workforce in the UK.^[41] LNM was a "major global competitor of Britain's own struggling steel industry".^[42]

Blair's letter hinted that the privatisation of the firm and sale to Mittal might help smooth the way for Romania's entry into the European Union.^[39] It also had a passage, removed just prior to Blair's signing of it, describing Mittal as "a friend".^[41]

In October , the LNM Group succeeded in concluding the transaction to pry loose the Romanian government from the control of steel assets.^[33]

Social work

Sports

After witnessing India win only one medal, bronze, in the Summer Olympics, and one medal, silver, at the Summer Olympics, Mittal decided to set up the Mittal Champions Trust with $9&#;million to support ten Indian athletes with world-beating potential.^[43] In , Mittal awarded Abhinav Bindra with Rs.

Crore (Rs. 15 million), for getting India its first individual Olympic gold medal in shooting. ArcelorMittal also provided steel for the construction of the ArcelorMittal Orbit for the Summer Olympics.^[44]

For Comic Relief he matched the money raised (~£1 million) on the celebrity special BBC programme, The Apprentice.^{[citation needed]}

Mittal had emerged as a leading contender to buy and sell Barclays Premiership clubs Wigan and Everton.

However, on 20 December , it was announced that the Mittal family had purchased a 20 per cent shareholding in Queens Park Rangers football club joining Flavio Briatore and Mittal's friend Bernie Ecclestone.^[45] As part of the investment Mittal's son-in-law, Amit Bhatia, took a place on the board of directors. The combined investment in the struggling club sparked suggestions that Mittal might be looking to join the growing ranks of wealthy individuals investing heavily in English football and emulating similar benefactors such as Roman Abramovich.^[46] On 19 February , Briatore resigned as QPR chairman, and sold further shares in the club to Ecclestone, making Ecclestone the single largest shareholder.^[47]

Education

In , the Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, Usha Mittal Foundation and the Government of Rajasthan partnered together to establish a university, the LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT) in Jaipur as an autonomous non-profit organisation.^{[citation needed][48]}

In , the Foundation along with Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan founded the Usha Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management in New Delhi.^{[citation needed]}

SNDT Women's University renamed the Institute of Technology for Women (ITW) as Usha Mittal Institute of Technology after a large donation from the Lakshmi Niwas Mittal Foundation.^{[citation needed]}

He completed his primary and secondary school from Nopany High formerly known as Shri Daulatram Nopany Vidyalaya.

Medical

In , the Mittals made a donation of £15 million to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, the largest private contribution the hospital had ever received. The donation was used to help fund their new facility, the Mittal Children's Medical Centre.^[49]

COVID pandemic

He made a donation of ₹ crores to PM cares fund during the COVID pandemic in India in ^[50]

Personal life

Mittal is married to Usha Dalmia.

They have a son Aditya Mittal and a daughter Vanisha Mittal.

Lakshmi Mittal has two brothers, Pramod Mittal and Vinod Mittal, and a sister, Seema Lohia, who married Indonesian businessman, Sri Prakash Lohia.^[1][2] His residence at 18–19 Kensington Palace Gardens—which was purchased from Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone in for £67 million (US$ million)—made it the world's most expensive house at the time.^[51] The house is decorated with marble taken from the same quarry that supplied the Taj Mahal.^[52] The extravagant show of wealth has been referred to as the "Taj Mittal".^[53] It has 12 bedrooms, an indoor pool, Turkish baths and parking for 20 cars.^[54] He is a lacto-vegetarian.^[55]

Mittal bought No.&#;9A Palace Greens, Kensington Gardens, formerly the Philippines Embassy, for £70&#;million in for his daughter Vanisha Mittal who is married to Amit Bhatia, a businessman and philanthropist.

Mittal threw a lavish "vegetarian reception" for Vanisha in the Palace of Versailles, France.^[55]

In , he also bought a colonial bungalow for $30&#;million at No.&#;22, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi, one of the most exclusive streets in India, occupied by embassies and billionaires, and rebuilt it as a house.^[56]

Personal wealth

According to the Sunday Times Rich List , Mittal and his family had an estimated personal net worth of £&#;billion,^[57] a decrease of $&#;billion on the previous year.^[58] Meanwhile, in Forbes magazine's annual billionaires list assessed estimated Mittal's wealth in at as the th-wealthiest billionaire with a net worth of US$&#;billion.^[59] Mittal's net worth peaked in , assessed by The Sunday Times at £&#;billion,^[60] and by Forbes at US$&#;billion, and rated as the fourth-wealthiest individual in the world.^[61] As of , he was ranked as the 15th richest man in India by Forbes with a net-worth of US$ billion.^[62] According to Forbes, Lakshmi Mittal’s net worth is currently estimated at US$ billion as of He holds the position of the th richest individual globally and ranks as the 13th wealthiest person in India.^[63][64]

In October , Mittal was ranked 15th on Forbes list of India’s richest tycoons, with a net worth of $ billion.^[65]

Wealth rankings

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Awards and honours

• Tim Bouquet and Byron Ousey – Cold Steel (Little, Brown, )
• Navalpreet Rangi – Documentary Film (The Man with a Mission, )

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