HSBC Hurun Global Indians List 2026: Check top 5 on the rich list — Details, complete list

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has topped the HSBC Hurun Global Indians List 2026, which tracks leaders of Indian origin, irrespective of passport, who have founded or lead the world’s most valuable companies headquartered outside India.

Companies were ranked by value, defined as market capitalisation for listed companies and Hurun Research valuations for unlisted companies, with a cut-off date of 25 June 2026. The list recognises 236 CEOs, MDs, Chairpersons and Founders across 200 companies, all headquartered outside India.

According to Anas Rahman Junaid, Founder and Chief Researcher at Hurun India, the most striking finding of this year’s list is that 125 of the 236 Global Indians did not found their companies. “They were selected by global boards to lead some of the world’s most valuable businesses, from Google and Microsoft to Novartis and Chanel. Founding a company shows ambition, but being chosen to lead one shows the world’s trust,” he added.

• Average age of the entrants is 55 years, with the 23-year-old co-founders of Mercor, Adarsh Hiremath and Surya Midha, being the youngest; and 79-year-old Romesh Wadhwani of SymphonyAI, the oldest.
• Among industries, software and services is the largest industry with 53 companies, followed by financial services with 31 and healthcare with 21.
• Meanwhile, artificial intelligence entered the list as an industry for the first time with 18 companies worth $227 billion, making it the fourth-largest industry by number of companies.

Top 5 Global Indians: Sundar Pichai leads list

According to the report, Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai leads the HSBC Hurun Global Indians List 2026 as the company is valued at $4.2 trillion. He is followed by Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella Micron Technology’s Chairman, CEO and President Sanjay Mehrotra, YouTube’s Neal Mohan, and Google Cloud’s Thomas Kurian.

The top 5 combined are worth $9.1 trillion, while three of the companies on the list are Software and Services. Of the five, Micron recorded the sharpest rise in the top 5, with its value up 1,174% since the 2024 list.