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Ratan Tata turns 86: Here is a look at his life, net worth and charities

Ratan Tata is the "most followed entrepreneur" in the country and has a total of 12.7 million followers on social media site 'X'.

By CNBCTV18.com Dec 28, 2023 7:28:19 AM IST (Published)

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Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, turned 86 on Thursday (December 28). With over 12 million followers on X (formerly Twitter), Ratan Tata is the ‘most followed entrepreneur’ in the country, according to the 360 ONE Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2023.
Ratan Tata was born on December 28, 1937, in Mumbai to Naval Tata and Sooni Tata.He attended the Campion School till 8th standard and thereafter studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai and the Bishop Cotton School in Shimla. Later, he went to Cornell University to study architecture and briefly worked with Jones and Emmons in Los Angeles before returning to India in 1962.
In the same year, he joined the Tata Group and worked with the Tata Steel division in Jamshedpur. Later on, he completed a management course at Harvard Business School in 1975. He took over as the chairman of the Tata Group in 1991.