![]() ![]() This month it will unveil what is billed as India’s top cultural and performing arts facility, the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, in the Bandra Kurla Complex district of Mumbai. Under Ambani’s leadership the foundation has been engaged in everything from rescuing Indian elephants to cultivating world class athletes to fighting the coronavirus pandemic. It is a broad philanthropic effort that has touched millions of lives. Many of these projects, and countless more, fall under the aegis of the Reliance Foundation, which Ambani established in 2010. She founded an international school and a nonprofit hospital in Mumbai, each considered the best of its kind in India. She owns the Mumbai Indians, the most successful cricket team in the Indian Premier League. She developed India’s professional soccer league and is the first Indian woman to be elected to the International Olympic Committee. ![]() Ambani, among other things, is the first Indian to be appointed an honorary trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, and she has sponsored exhibitions there and at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has channeled that passion into an ever-expanding array of initiatives, activities, and institutions that are as humanitarian as they are patriotic. ![]() “I’m a passionate Indian,” Nita Ambani is fond of saying. ![]()
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