Gopi Hinduja

Spear’s Review

Gopi Hinduja, chair of the family company Hinduja Group, has a shared fortune of more than £37 billion, putting the Hindujas at the very top of the 2024 Sunday Times Rich List.

For many years, Gopi co-chaired the business with his brother, Sri, who died in 2023. The firm has its beginnings in a business founded by the brothers’ father, Parmanand Hinduja, in 1914. It now employs around 200,000 people globally and has interests spanning healthcare, banking, communications, real estate, the media and the hospitality industry.

The Hindujas have faced difficulties in recent times. The family became embroiled in an internecine disagreement related to the health of Sri, and the power of attorney given to his wife, Madhu, and their two daughters in the Court of Protection. But, according to a spokesperson for Gopi, 83, and his other brothers Prakash and Ashok, all this was ‘resolved amicably’ as of November 2022.

Gopi’s son Sanjay Hinduja, 58, has worked within the family businesses for more than three decades. His generation of the family has been integral to the development of their new hospitality and property ventures.    

The opening of the long-anticipated hotel and residences at the Old War Offices on Whitehall – the first Raffles venture in London – holds a special resonance for the clan, and not just because it is close to the family’s home on Carlton Terrace. Sanjay Hinduja previously told Spear’s that it represented an important ‘legacy’ project for them. ‘We wanted to create a legacy in London. That was the dream of my father and his brothers – to leave a legacy behind,’ he said.

In recognition of the family’s extraordinary transformation of the landmark into the five-star Raffles London at The OWO, Spear’s awarded G.P. Hinduja & Family the Entrepreneur of the Year honour at the 2023 Spear’s Awards.