Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and others guests for Anant Ambani-Radhika Merchant pre-wedding festivities. Check full list here

High-profile names from the worlds of tech, business and entertainment are expected to attend Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding festivities in Jamnagar next month. The guest list reportedly includes Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, among others.

Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, had gotten engaged to Radhika Merchant in December 2022.

The couple’s pre-wedding festivities will take place at the Reliance complex in Jamnagar, Gujarat. The events are scheduled to take place between March 1 and 3.

The extensive guest list includes international bigwigs like Dr Sultan Al Jaber, CEO & MD, ADNOC; BP CEO Murray Auchincloss; Qatar PM Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani; Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister of Sweden; Thomas Barrack, Chairman & Founder, Colony Capital; John Chambers, CEO, JC2 Ventures; John Elkann, Executive Chairman, Exor; Ari Emanuel, CEO, Endeavor; Larry Fink, Chairman & CEO, BlackRock.

Bruce Flatt, CEO, Brookfield Asset Management; Michael Grimes, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley; Stephen Harper, Former Prime Minister of Canada; Google president Donald Harrison; Richard Hilton, Chairman, Hilton & Hyland; Ajit Jain, Vice Chairman, Berkshire Hathway; Archie Keswick, Board Member, Mandarin Oriental; Dr Richard Klausner, Scientist; Terry McAuliffe, Former Governor; Yuri Milner; Ajit Mohan, President – Asia Pacific, Snap Inc; James Murdoch, Founder & CEO, Lupa Systems; Purna Saggurti, Vice Chairman, Bank of America; the King and Queen of Bhutan; Jorge Quiroga, Former President of Bolivia; Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia; Eric Schmidt, Founder, Schmidt Futures; Klaus Schwab, Chairperson, World Economic Forum; Ram Shriram, Founding & Managing Partner, Sherpalo; Jim Teague, CEO, Enterprise GP; Fareed Zakaria, journalist; Lynn Forester de Rothschild, CEO, E L Rothschild and Marcus Wallenberg, Ex-president & CEO, InvestorAB are also on the guest list.

The CEO of Walt Disney Bob Iger; Ted Pick, CEO, Morgan Stanley; Bill Ford, Chairman & CEO, General Atlantic; Stephen Schwarzman, Founder, Blackstone Group; Brian Thomas Moynihan, Chairman, Bank of America; Carlos Slim, Investor; Jay Lee, Executive Chairman, Samsung Electronics; Raymond Dalio, Founder, Bridgewater Associates; Zhang Lei, Founder, Hillhouse Capital; Howard Marks, Co-founder, Oaktree Capital Management; James Dinan, Founder, York Capital Management have also been invited to Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding festivities.

Yasir Al Rumayyan, Chairperson, Saudi Aramco; Bob Dudley, Former CEO, bp; Christopher Elias, President, Global Development, BMGF; Rob Goldstein, COO, BlackRock; John Hegeman, VP – Monetisation, Meta; Bernard Looney, Former CEO, BP; Rachel Lord, Senior Managing Director, BlackRock APAC; Amin H Nasser, President & CEO, Aramco; Vivi Nevo, Founder, NV Investments; Nitin Nohria, Former Dean, Harvard Business School; Javier Olivan, COO, Meta; Anuj Ranjan, Managing Partner, Brookfield; Michelle Ritter, Founder & CEO, Steel Perlot; Jure Sola, CEO, Sanmina Corp; Mark Tucker, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings Plc are also on the guest list.

Khaldoon Al Mubarak, CEO & MD, Mubadala; Mark Carney, Chairman, Brookfield Asset Management; Joe Bae, CEO, KKR & Co.; Kenichiro Yoshida, CEO, Sony​; Dr Brian Levine, Founding Partner, CCRM New York and Gynaecologist Dr Thais Aliabadi are also expected to attend the celebrations.

One more recognisable name on the guest list is of Ivanka Trump, daughter of former US President Donald Trump, who has been invited along with her husband Jared Kushner.

The Jamnagar airport, which is used to single-digit landings daily, will see around 50 landings on March 1. The entire airport is being spruced up by Reliance, as it is also the route to the RIL refinery complex.

⁠Many more VIPs are expected to attend the mega event especially tycoons from India and celebrities from the world of entertainment.

The event will witness the single biggest gathering of VIPs, ⁠including heads of state, former heads of state besides the biggest names from the world of global business, in India outside the G20 gathering and is a testament to Mukesh Ambani’s global stature and influence.