Dhanin Chearavanont
{{Short description|Thai businessman (born 1939)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Dhanin Chearavanont
| honorific_suffix = MPCh MVM PBh ThCh
| native_name = ธนินท์ เจียรวนนท์
| birth_name = Kokmin Saechia
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1939|04|19}}
| birth_place = Bangkok, Siam
| occupation = Senior chairman, Charoen Pokphand
| children = 5, including Suphachai
| spouse = Tewee Chearavanont (1962–2023){{cite news | url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2602131/ | title=Khunying Tawee of CP passed away at age 83 | newspaper=Bangkok Post }}
| alma_mater =
| image = ธนินท์_เจียรวนนท์_Dhanin_Chearavanont (cropped).jpg
}}
Dhanin Chearavanont ({{langx|th|ธนินท์ เจียรวนนท์}}; {{RTGS|Thanin Chiarawanon}}; born 19 April 1939), known in Chinese as Xie Guomin, or Chia Kok Min in Teochew ({{zh|t=謝國民|p=Xiè Guómín}}, Peng'im: zia7 gog4 min5 ), 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/chearavanont/ |title=Asia's wealthiest dynasties Chearavanont Family |work=Forbes |access-date=24 November 2017}}{{cite web |url=https://www.thomaswhite.com/global-perspectives/dhanin-chearavanont-ceo-chairman-of-cp-group/ |title=Dhanin Chearavanont, CEO & Chairman of CP Group |publisher=Thomas White International |access-date=17 December 2018 |date=November 2011 |archive-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404033857/https://www.thomaswhite.com/global-perspectives/dhanin-chearavanont-ceo-chairman-of-cp-group/ |url-status=dead }} As of January 2021, his net worth was estimated at $17.2 billion.{{Cite web|title=Dhanin Chearavanont|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/dhanin-chearavanont/|access-date=2020-10-08|website=Forbes|language=en}} By July 2021 Forbes stated Dhanin and his brothers were worth to be US$12.8 billion,{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/chearavanont-brothers/?sh=8471e8d15d3e |title=Chearavanont Brothers $30.2B 2021 Thailand's 50 Richest Net Worth |work=Forbes.com |access-date=6 January 2022 |date=6 July 2021}} and in July 2022, Forbes ranked the Chearavanont Brothers as the richest in Thailand.{{cite web |url=https://www.nationthailand.com/business/40010765 |title=Forbes: Chearavanont Brothers richest in Thailand, Elon Musk in world |work=Forbes.com |access-date=6 January 2022 |date=5 January 2021}}
Early life and education
Dhanin Chearavanont was born in 1939,{{cite web|title=Profile: Erez Vigodman|url=http://www.ngmf.com/ngmf2014/speakers20.html|website=16th Nikkei Global Management Forum|access-date=1 August 2015}} as the fourth and youngest son of Chia Ek Chor.{{cite news|last1=Ismail|first1=Netty|title=Thai Brothers Emerge as Billionaires With CP Group Stakes|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-13/thai-brothers-emerge-as-billionaires-with-cp-group-stakes|access-date=24 February 2017|work=Bloomberg|date=14 July 2014}} Dhanin attended primary school at the Chinese Sarasit Wittaya school in Ban Pong District, Ratchaburi province, until graduating in 1949. In 1952, he travelled to China to study at Shantou No.1 High School, before travelling to the Education University of Hong Kong where he pursued higher education in 1956 including training from the National Defence College of Thailand.{{Cite web |title=Dhanin Chearavanont – Family, Family Tree |url=https://www.celebfamily.com/business/dhanin-chearavanont.html,%20https://www.celebfamily.com/business/dhanin-chearavanont.html |access-date=2023-07-20 |language=en-US}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=July 2023}}
Business
Chearavanont built a close relationship with leadership of Chinese Communist Party, which allowed his business CP to be the largest foreign lessee of land in China, amounting to 200,00 hectares of land in 2012.{{cite news |date=6 December 2012 |title=Meet Dhanin Chearavanont, the man who swooped in on Ping An |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/b210f07c-1210-3275-9ebc-7c00c47692cf |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 January 2022}}
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Philanthropy
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In 2020, Dhanin donated US$21.8 million to fight the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand.{{Cite news |last= |first= |date= |title=Billionaire highlights social contributions |newspaper=Bangkok Post |url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1911320/billionaire-highlights-social-contributions |access-date=2020-05-16 |archive-url= |archive-date=}}
Personal life
He is a follower of Buddhism.{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Minerva |date=June 4, 2017 |title=10 Buddhist Billionaires in Asia |url=https://www.lotus-happiness.com/10-buddhist-billionaires-asia/}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=July 2023}}
References
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