Rakesh Mittal

$9.02B

$357K

as of 04/20/26

About Rakesh Mittal

Rakesh Mittal is a non-executive director of Bharti Airtel, one of India's largest mobile phone operators. It has more than 600 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 was for a minority stake in the company.

In March 2024, Indian-American billionaire investor Rajiv Jain's GQG Partners bought a $713 million stake in Bharti Airtel from SingTel.

Their Bharti Global, run by his nephew Shravin, has stakes in France's Eutelsat and U.K. telecoms company BT.

Personal stats

Citizenship

India

Source of wealth

Telecom

Residence

Delhi

Marital status

Married

Birth date

09/18/55 (age 70)

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Punjab University

Self-made

inherited

Rakesh Mittal’s fortune is worth

150K

troy ounces of gold

139K

median U.S. household

90K

median U.S. income

0.18%

U.S. credit card volume

0.036%

GDP of the United States

0.027%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

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

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

BSE INDIA | 532454-IN

Bharti Airtel Ltd.

LONDON | BT.A-GB

BT Group

EURONEXT PARIS | ETL-FR

Eutelsat Communications

BSE INDIA | 540716-IN

ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company

BSE INDIA | 500215-IN

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