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This is a list of the 20 richest people in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan) based on the 2024 Forbes Billionaires List. 2024
Kulappu Arachchige Don Dhammika Perera, commonly known as Dhammika Perera (born December 28, 1967), is a Sri Lankan billionaire businessman and politician. A top corporate leader, he is one of the wealthiest people in Sri Lanka, controlling 23 listed companies on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
Ishara Chinthaka Nanayakkara is a Sri Lankan entrepreneur and businessman. As of December 2019, he is the Richest man in Sri Lanka. [1] He is currently serving as the deputy group chairman of the LOLC Holdings. [2] His father Rajah Nanayakkara was also a prominent businessman and he died in 2017 at the age of 77.
Ken Balendra - Sri Lankan corporate leader and executive; holds and has held many corporate positions in Sri Lanka and the region Chandran Rutnam - filmmaker and owner of Lionair Suresh Joachim - is well known as the co-founder of WBBAS, No Poverty No Disease No War, World Peace Marathon and Suresh Joachim International Group Of Companies.
Recognized as being one of the twelve Top Women Change-Makers in the country by the Parliament of Sri Lanka and USAID. Recipient of the Career Role Model Award in 2013 by Women in Management, Sri Lanka and the IFS; a World Bank Group. In 2016, awarded the Women Super Achiever Award at the World Women Leadership Congress Awards, India.
Women in Sri Lanka make up to 52.09% of the population according to the 2012 census of Sri Lanka. [7] Sri Lankan women have contributed greatly to the country's development, in many areas. Historically, a masculine bias has dominated Sri Lankan culture , although woman have been allowed to vote in elections since 1931 . [ 8 ]
Business, books, beauty products. There’s a lot of ways someone in America can become a million- or even billionaire. In a recent ranking of America’s richest self-made women, Forbes broke ...
There were 337 women listed on the world's billionaires as of 4 April 2023, up from 327 in 2022. [1] Since 2021, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has been listed as the world's wealthiest woman. According to a 2021 billionaire census, women make up 11.9% of the billionaire cohort, and "just over half of all female billionaires are heiresses, with ...