Rishad Naoroji (born 30 August 1951) is an Indian
billionaire
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...
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environmentalist
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, businessperson, author, and one of the members of the
Godrej family
The Godrej family is an Indian Parsi family that manages and largely owns the Godrej Group of company- a conglomerate founded by Ardeshir Godrej and his brother Pirojsha Burjorji Godrej in 1897. It spans sectors as diverse as real estate, consu ...
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Career
Naoroji is the cousin of Indian billionaire Adi Godrej and gets his fortune from a one-fifth share in the Godrej family's assets, but has never been involved in the family businesses.
He founded the Raptor Research and Conservation Foundation to focus on the conservation of Indian birds of prey.
Naoroji sits on the governing council of the Bombay Natural History Society.
According to the Forbes Billionaire's List in 2021, Naoroji has an estimated net worth of $2.4 billion, making him the 1299th richest person in the world.
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Godrej family
The Godrej family is an Indian Parsi family that manages and largely owns the Godrej Group of company- a conglomerate founded by Ardeshir Godrej and his brother Pirojsha Burjorji Godrej in 1897. It spans sectors as diverse as real estate, consu ...
References
Indian billionaires
Living people
Indian industrialists
1951 births
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