Anil D. Ambani                                                       Regarded as one of the foremost corporate leaders of contemporary India, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani is the Chairman of all the listed Group companies — Reliance Communications, Reliance Capital, Reliance Energy and Reliance Natural Resources Ltd.  He is also Chairman of the Board of Governors of Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat.  Till recently, he also held the post of Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India’s largest private sector enterprise.  Anil D Ambani joined Reliance in 1983 as Co-Chief Executive Officer, and was centrally involved in every aspect of the company’s management over the next 22 years.  He is credited with having pioneered a number of path-breaking financial innovations in the Indian capital markets. He spearheaded the country’s first forays into the overseas capital markets with international public offerings of global deposit ary receipts, convertibles and bonds. Starting in 1991, he directed Reliance Industries in its efforts to raise over US$ 2 billion. He also steered the 100-year Yankee bond issue for the company in January 1997.  He is a member of:  Wharton Board of Overseers, The Wharton School, USA  Central Advisory Committee, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission  Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad  Board of Governors Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur  In June 2004, he was elected for a six-year term as an independent member of the Rajya Sabha, Upper House of India’s Parliament a position he chose to resign voluntarily on March 25, 2006.  Awards and Achievements:  Conferred the ‘CEO of the Year 2004’ in the Platts Global Energy Awards  Rated as one of ‘India’s Most Admired CEOs’ for the sixth consecutive year in the Business Barons – TNS Mode opinion poll, 2004  Conferred ‘The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award’ by the Bombay Management Association, October 2002  Awarded the First Wharton Indian Alumni Award by the Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) in recognition of his contribution to the establishment of Reliance as a global leader in many of its business areas, December 2001  Selected by Asiaweek magazine for its list of ‘Leaders of the Millennium in Business and Finance’ and was introduced as the only ‘new hero’ in Business and Finance from India, June 1999  Anil Dhirubhai Ambani  Born on: June 4, 1959  Birthplace: Mumbai, India  Father's name: Dhirubhai Hirachand Ambani  Mother's name: Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani  Education: Bachelor of Science from the University of Mumbai and  MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA  Family: Married to Tina and has two sons Jai Anmol and Jai Anshul  Business address: Reliance Communications Limited, I Block, 2nd  Floor, Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City, Navi Mumbai - 400710, India  Telephone: +91 22 3037 5522, +91 22 3037 5534  Fax: +91 22 3037 5577  E-mail: anil.ambani@relianceada.com  courtesy