Shashi & Ravi Ruia

$1.87B
as of 03/11/22

About Shashi & Ravi Ruia

Mumbai brothers Shashi (pictured) and Ravi Ruia's Essar group has interests in shipping, oil refining, infrastructure, and metals and mining.

The sale of their Essar Steel to steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal's ArcelorMittal and Japan's Nippon Steel was completed in 2019.

The Ruias still own the profitable Stanlow oil refinery in the U.K. through privately held Essar Energy.

Since 2017, the brothers have repaid $20 billion in debt.

In February 2020, the brothers celebrated the 50th anniversary of the group, which was founded in Chennai.

Personal stats

Citizenship

India

Source of wealth

diversified

Residence

Mumbai, India

Self-made

inherited and growing

Shashi & Ravi Ruia’s fortune is worth

31K

troy ounces of gold

29K

median U.S. household

19K

median U.S. income

0.037%

U.S. credit card volume

0.007%

GDP of the United States

0.005%

United States debt

Net worth history

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Did you know?

The siblings concluded a long-pending deal in August 2017 to sell their Essar Oil assets to Russian oil-producer Rosneft for $13 billion.

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Financial assets

BSE INDIA | 533704-IN

Essar Shipping Limited

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