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American universities dominate, but it’s not all Ivy Leaguers on the 2021 World’s Billionaires list.
The 2,755 people on
Forbes’ 2021 World’s Billionaires list received their undergraduate degrees all over the world, from Al-Azhar University in Egypt to the Zhejiang University of Technology in China. Hundreds did not attend college at all, or left before obtaining a diploma, including a pair of Harvard dropouts who are among the five richest people in the world: Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.
But among the billionaires who completed their undergraduate education, a few schools stand out. Harvard leads the way, with at least 29 billionaire alumni on the
Seven from healthcare and pharma sector join billionaires club in pandemic-hit 2020
With emergence of seven new billionaire promoters in healthcare & pharmaceutical sector, India now has 17 billionaire promoters, up from 10 last year. FILE PHOTO: People walk past a chemist shop at a market in Mumbai, India, June 25, 2015 (Image Source: Reuters)
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Updated: Jan 10, 2021, 06:36 AM IST
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world and economies around the globe faltered, the Indian healthcare and pharmaceutical sector saw the emergence of seven new billionaire promoters in 2020, reported Business Standard.
India now has 17 billionaire promoters in the sector, up from 10 last year. Premchand Godha of Ipca Labs, Prathap C Reddy of Apollo Hospitals, Ajanta Pharma s Mannalal Agrawal and Natco Pharma s VC Nannapaneni were some of the new billionaires.
The pandemic has helped turn dozens of healthcare leaders into billionaires
According to Forbes, 50 doctors, scientists and healthcare entrepreneurs earned billionaire status this year with the majority being from China
Of the 50 new billionaires, 28 hail from China, where virus first emerged in 2019
One notable new billionaires is Uğur Şahin, the physician who co-founded BioNTech, which helped develop the Pfizer vaccine
Another notable new billionaire is Stéphane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna
The COVID-19 pandemic has helped 50 healthcare leaders become billionaires, with 28 hailing from China, where the virus first emerged in December 2019, according to Forbes.
The first case of the coronavirus was reported in Wuhan last year before quickly spreading across the world and killing more than 1.7 million people. In the US alone, there are more than 19 million confirmed infections and at least 332,723 Americans have died.
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