Amit Bhatia
Amit Bhatia
Amit Bhatia,is a British-Indian businessman. His parents are Arun and Renu Bhatia. Bhatia is fluent in Gujarati, Hindi, English and Spanish. In 2004 Bhatia married Vanisha Mittal, the only daughter and second child of billionaire steel tycoon and Chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, Lakshmi Mittal, in a ceremony said to have cost as much as £60 million...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionBusinessman
issues peaceful littles
If we don't have an egalitarian, equitable, and peaceful society, being very wealthy isn't worth much. If I can make a little bit of a dent in addressing this issue, I'll have done my service.
age assistant college delhi found good job lasted less professor teacher tolerant trained
Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.
business clubs glamorous great passion seen sports trophy
We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.
sports father wrestling
My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.
writing people bathroom
I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.
two energy needs
I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.
my-family british passports
I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.
running running-a-business expertise
My expertise is running businesses.
giving-up hero role-models
In india, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.