What is Azim Premji worth?

Wipro founder-chairman and philanthropist · age 81

Azim Premji photo

the estimate

$8.3B

≈ ₹73,000 crore

As of 2026 Estimate confidence low

At $8.3B, Azim Premji sits inside the top 1% of U.S. households, which starts around $13.7M.

How we got this number

The midpoint follows the most recent public estimates and reporting on record. The range is lolopop's uncertainty band, not a disclosed figure. No audited balance sheet, portfolio, debt schedule, contract terms, or tax records are public, so treat it as an order of magnitude.

Forbes· DQYDJ

  • Millionaire? Yes based on the $8.3B estimate
  • Billionaire? Yes the estimate clears $1B
  • In the top 1%? Yes the U.S. top 1% starts near $13.7M

education

  • Stanford University B.S. Electrical Engineering

where the money comes from

Azim Premji's fortune derives chiefly from his controlling family stake in Wipro, the Bengaluru-based IT services and consumer-goods conglomerate he built after taking over in 1966. Forbes lists his source of wealth as software services and pegged his real-time net worth at about $8.3 billion in August 2026.

Beyond Wipro, the family runs PremjiInvest, a multi-billion-dollar private and public equity fund. A large share of his wealth has been irrevocably committed to philanthropy through the Azim Premji Foundation, which is not counted the same way across trackers, so published estimates vary widely.

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