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Biography of AZIM PREMJI.

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Azim Hashim Premji  :                              Azim Premji  (born 24 July 1945) is an Indian   business tycoon ,   investor ,  engineer , and   philanthropist , who is the chairman of  Wipro Limited . He is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry .  He was responsible for guiding Wipro through four decades of diversification and growth to finally emerge as one of the global leaders in the software industry.  In 2010, he was voted among the 20 most powerful men in the world by  Asiaweek . He has twice been listed among the 100 most influential people by  TIME Magazine , once in 2004 and more recently in 2011.                         He is currently the tenth richest person in India with an estimated net worth of US$7.2 billion as of October 2019. In 2013, he agreed to give away at least half of his wealth by signing    The Giving Pledge . Premji started with a $2.2 billion donation to the Azim Premji Foundation , focused on education in India. Early