Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited in conversation with Bloomberg Television’s Haslinda Amin.
Doha: Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has lauded the Qatar’s help to India in sending medicines and other supply during pandemic crisis.
Speaking during one of the sessions of Qatar Economic Forum, Powered by Bloomberg, Asia’s richest man said the timely help showed that Qatar may be a small nation but it has a big heart.
“We in India will never forget Qatar’s friendship during this crisis where it moved beyond commerce where they even used all their passenger aircraft to get medicines and supplies to India in time and what this has shown that Qatar may be a small nation in size but it has a very big heart,” said Mukesh Ambani.
He shared his vision for a post-pandemic world - how global commerce has changed forever why the future is digital and the role business can play in creating a fairer future for all.
“Trade along with purpose and compassion is the way forward and that is going to get all of us as humanity together to integrate and make sure that collectively we actually deal with global problems as one and help each other moving forward,” he said.
He said that there is no option but to make businesses green. “We have no option as a society, as a business but to really adopt a sustainable business model,” Ambani told Bloomberg Television’s Haslinda Amin as part of the Qatar Economic Forum yesterday. “I think that’s a prerequisite for every business to survive as we go forward.”
When asked if this green push will require dialing back on some of Reliance’s businesses, Ambani said “it means transforming our businesses and integrating that with the future,” without sharing more details.
Speaking about the current challenges for the world, he said the first challenge is to make sure that we get rid of vaccination divide in the world.
He added that the second challenge is to make sure we bring back the economies particularly of those countries which have not had the benefit of stimulus and government money, by supporting the whole global economy to come back and to grow so that we are able to grow the whole world in the sustainable way and not only bring back the developed economy. “And towards that all of us in industry governments and civil society will have to work as a coalition not only for our own company, not only our own country but for the global economy collectively,” he added.
He also stressed removing the digital divide from the world. “Digital divide must be bridged, both among nations and within nations this is because connectivity and communication have become the basic needs and also fundamental rights of every human being on the planet as basic as food, clothing and shelter,” he said.
