Featuring at No. 30, Noel Tata is the only Zoroastrian included in The Indian Express (IE) 2025 list of 100 most powerful Indians. The 68-year-old industrialist, chairman of Tata Trusts, Trent and Tata Investment Corporation "is expected to wield considerable influence in the management” of the USD 165 billion (Rs 14,007 crore) Tata Group. In earlier years notables like the late J. R. D. Tata, Nani Palkhivala, Fali Nariman, Soli Sorabjee as well as Adi Godrej, Cyrus and Adar Poonawalla had featured.
Noel Tata: guide, guard and policy-maker
"(Noel) rose to prominence within the Tata Group for transforming Trent into a retail powerhouse and the fourth most valuable company in its portfolio of businesses,” notes the information provided in the supplement. "He will guide the conglomerate at a time when the Group faces several challenges globally and domestically… He wields huge informal authority as well and is looked up to within the Group as a guide, guard and policy-maker… He has to ensure that corporate governance is practiced and shareholder wealth is not ended.”
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