Priti G Adani
Chairperson, Adani FoundationAbout
Priti G. Adani, chairperson, Adani Foundation, has spearheaded social development initiatives since the foundation’s launch in 1996. A doctor by training and an educationist by passion, Priti chose social work over a medical career, at a time when the Gautam Adani-led conglomerate was foraying into various businesses. At its inception, Priti led the foundation as a rural initiative in healthcare and education in Mundra, Gujarat. Within two decades, she converted it into one of the world’s most wide-reaching non-governmental non-profit organisations—in education, health, sustainable livelihood, climate action, and community development. Working with over 800 development partners, the Adani Foundation operates in 6,769 villages across 19 states, and positively impacts 9.1 million lives at the grassroots level. The Adani Group, which generated a pre-tax profit (Ebitda) of ₹82,917 crore in FY24, invests about 2% of its total profits every year in various CSR initiatives through the Foundation. In education, the Foundation runs 36 schools. It also helps fill infrastructure gaps by building classrooms, libraries, toilets, boundary walls, and playgrounds. In community water conservation and potable water harvesting, the Foundation has created 21 check dams with 10.2 million cubic metres of water storage capacity, besides digging 237 borewells and recharge wells, 403 deepened ponds, and installing 140 roof rainwater harvesting systems. In health and nutrition, it offers mobile healthcare units and health camps for primary care, and rural clinics and hospitals for secondary and tertiary care. “Our footprint has grown manifold, bringing defining changes in the lives of millions, but the most compelling impact is how it (the Foundation) has touched lives,” says Priti.
