Dhanin Chearavanont
Thai businessman and entrepreneur (born 1939)
Dhanin Chearavanont (Thai: ธนินท์ เจียรวนนท์; RTGS: Thanin Chiarawanon; born 19 April 1939), known in Chinese as Xie Guomin, or Chia Kok Min in Teochew (Chinese: 謝國民; pinyin: Xiè Guómín, Peng'im: zia7 gog4 min5 ), is a Thai businessman and entrepreneur. He is the senior chairman of Charoen Pokphand, Thailand's largest private company.2
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Born 1938.1
Net worth $15.2B (as of 2019, per The World's Billionaires).15 Richest people
About
Dhanin is head of the Chearavanont family, which was ranked by Forbes Asia in 2017 as Asia's fourth-wealthiest family with a net worth of US$36.6 billion. As of January 2021, his net worth was estimated at $17.2 billion. By July 2021 Forbes stated Dhanin and his brothers were worth to be US$12.8 billion, and in July 2022, Forbes ranked the Chearavanont Brothers as the richest in Thailand.
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Companies
- Charoen PokphandChief executive officer17
- Charoen Pokphand FoodsFounder18
- True CorporationFounder19
Early life and education
Dhanin Chearavanont was born in 1939, as the fourth and youngest son of Chia Ek Chor. Dhanin attended primary school at the Chinese Sarasit Wittaya school in Ban Pong District, Ratchaburi province, until graduating in 1949. In 1952, he travelled to China to study at Shantou No.1 High School, before travelling to the Education University of Hong Kong where he pursued higher education in 1956 including training from the National Defence College of Thailand.
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Career
Occupation: entrepreneur, investor.6
- Date not recordedFounded Charoen Pokphand Foods3
- Date not recordedFounded True Corporation4
- Date not recordedChief executive, Charoen Pokphand5
Chearavanont built a close relationship with leadership of Chinese Communist Party, which allowed his business CP to be the largest foreign lessee of land in China, amounting to 200,00 hectares of land in 2012.
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Personal life
He is a follower of Buddhism.
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Philanthropy
In 2020, Dhanin donated US$21.8 million to fight the spread of COVID-19 in Thailand.
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Net worth over time
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- 1WikidataDhanin Chearavanont on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaDhanin Chearavanont on Wikipedia
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- 18WikidataCharoen Pokphand Foods, Founder
- 19WikidataTrue Corporation, Founder
- 20Wikimedia CommonsDhanin Chearavanont photo by TNN Online, CC BY 3.0