CP chief Dhanin tops Thailand wealth list with $5bn

Dhanin Chearavanont, senior chairman of the Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, leads the list of Thailand’s richest people on on the Forbes magazine World’s Billionaires 2025 list, with a net worth of US$5.2 billion.

Dhanin Chearavanont (Thai: ธนินท์ เจียรวนนท์; RTGS: Thanin Chiarawanon; born 19 April 1939), known in Chinese as Xie Guomin, or Chia Kok Min

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, is a Chinese-Thai billionaire businessman, based in Bangkok. He is the senior chairman of Charoen Pokphand, Thailand's largest private company. 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.

He is ranked 141st among 3,028 billionaires on the list. The United States has a record 902 billionaires, followed by China (516, including Hong Kong) and India (205). Thailand has 25 billionaires on the list.

Globally, Forbes said, 15 people have a net worth of at least $100 billion each.

In Thailand, Mr Dhanin, 85, is followed by Sarath Ratanavadi, CEO of Gulf Development Plc, who has a net worth of $2.9 billion and is 184th on the global list. Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, chairman of Thai Beverage Plc, is ranked third with $1.7 billion and is 210th on the global list.

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is 15th among Thailand’s richest and 1,688th on the world list with a net worth of $2.1 billion.

Globally, Elon Musk, the co-founder of Tesla and now Donald Trump’s cost-cutter-in-chief, tops the table with a net worth of $342 billion, followed by Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook with $216 billion and Jeff Bezos of Amazon with $215 billion.

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