With share-based wealth of $118bn, India’s Gautam Adani briefly overtook Jeff Bezos as the world’s second-richest man last year — becoming the face of the fast-growing economy that will this year become the world’s most populous country.
The industrialist who once described himself as an “introvert” has basked in his newfound prominence, hobnobbing with world leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron and then-British prime minister Boris Johnson.
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