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than 700,000 customers. His
second, in partnership with
the Michael & Susan Dell
Foundation, offers after-school
support to students in city
slums through a tech platform.
The third, Araku, works with
tribal farmers by connecting
them to global markets. It
has helped farmers convert
wasteland into plantations
producing premium coffee. In
2010, he donated $10 million
to Harvard to set up the
Mahindra Humanities Center.

Rajiv Mehta 56
MANAGING DIRECTOR,
SURAT DIAMOND JEWELLERY
His Ratna Nidhi Trust, set
up by his late father 50 years
ago, focuses on the disabled
by distributing the Jaipur
Foot, the famed artificial limb,
in Mumbai. Field trials are
under way for a 3-D-printed
artificial leg that the trust
developed with the help of the
Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay, and which won a
Google Impact Challenge for
Disabilities award in 2015.
The $1.2 million annual
budget also covers a Food
for Education programme
that distributes free meals
to disadvantaged children
studying in 37 Mumbai schools
that are not covered by the
government’s Mid Day Meal
programme. The World Bank
and Alibaba have backed
Mehta’s mission of donating 1
million educational books to
10,000 schools and colleges in
India by 2021. He also offers
scholarships to children of
terrorist-attack victims.

indonesia

Rikrik Rizkiyana 46
SENIOR PARTNER, ASSEGAF
HAMZAH & PARTNERS LAW FIRM

Co-founded a boarding school

for gifted children from

poor families. Donated $1.2

million and has raised another

$600,000. The Cugenang

Gifted School in Cianjur,

West Java, opened in 2010

and now has 23 students.

Applicants must have an IQ

of 130 and be younger than

9. Students receive a free
   education, room and board
   through high school; parents
   are allowed to visit anytime.
   The school accepts students of
   all religious beliefs. It helps fill
   a gap in a national system that
   doesn’t provide specialised
   education for exceptionally
   bright children. “We give our
   best to direct every gifted kid
   into a proper understanding
   of the world, of the people
   as well as of kindness and
   humility,” he says.

Harry Susilo 77

FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN,

SEKAR GROUP

Launched the Susilo Institute

for Ethics in a Global Economy

at Boston University (BU)

and established a permanent,

multimillion-dollar

endowment to fund classes

for students in Boston and

research work around the

world. Both of his daughters

graduated from BU. The

institute is developing a

global network of researchers

who examine the business

philosophies and practices of

different cultures and discuss

their findings at an annual

symposium; the first was held

in Surabaya last year, the

second in Boston last month.

His mission, raising the level of

integrity in the next generation

of business leaders, is the

result of his decades running

his food-manufacturing

business, which gave him a

front-seat view of the murky

dealings that led to Indonesia’s

financial crisis in 1997.

Japan

Shigenobu

Nagamori 72

FOUNDER & CEO, NIDEC

Fulfilling a long-time dream,

in March he announced a

$90 million gift to set up

an engineering programme

and a facility at Kyoto

Gakuen University. The

plan is to launch the

programme in 2020 with 200

undergraduate students—

half from overseas—and up

to 100 graduate students.

Akio Nitori 73

CEO, NITORI HOLDINGS

With a gift of his company’s

shares, the billionaire discount-

home-furnishings retailer

started the Nitori International

Scholarship Foundation more

than a decade ago. The main

goal was to help graduate

students from around Asia to

attend Japan’s top universities.

In 2014, the foundation, which

holds a 3.5 percent stake in

Nitori worth more than $660

million, started making grants

to colleges in the US, Taiwan

and Vietnam for scholarships.

Yukiyoshi

Watanabe 53

FOUNDER & CEO, ISFNET

The information-technology

entrepreneur launched the

non-profit Future Dream

Akio Nitori

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