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Anil Agarwal: India
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Dr. Anil Agarwal earned his DDS in 1974 from the King George’s Medical School, India and went on to complete a residency in Prosthodontics at Northwestern University, where he then taught Prosthodontics for 21 years. He ... completed a Masters of Science in Oral Biology. Having completed over 600 hours of continuing education in prosthodontics and implants, Dr. Agarwal has earned both Fellowship and Diplomate status in the International Congress of Oral Implantologists, as well as Fellowships for the Academy of General Dentistry, and the American College of Osseointegration.
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Anil Agarwal was a leading environmental advocate, journalist and analyst who played a key role in creating public consciousness about environmental and developmental issues in India. His was a unique brand of environmentalism – one which put people before trees and tigers and one in which there was a place for deep scientific analysis of nature, of human interventions on nature. His ideas on the relationship between environment and development, environment and poverty, the need to empower the local people were pioneering and laid the basis for what is now called sustainable development.
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Born in eastern India, Anil Agarwal started out as a scrap metal merchant in Mumbai, before moving to London 30 years ago. Agarwal's fortunes soared as the small Indian company he set up in 1988 rode the telecom boom, supplying copper cables to telecom companies in India
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Anil Agarwal, the chairman of Vedanta Resources, a metals and mining company in India, had said in February that he planned to finance an elite institution that would cater to more than 100,000 students. On Wednesday, he formally announced the $1-billion donation, to be given in phases. During a brief ceremony at the State Secretariat in Orissa, he signed a memorandum of understanding with the Orissa government.
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Mr. Agarwal will always be remembered for his significant contribution in generating awareness about environment as an editor of Down to Earth, a science and environment magazine. Mr. Agarwal, a mechanical engineer from IIT Kanpur, started his journalistic career as a science correspondent for the Hindustan Times in 1973. He has written for several international publications including the London-based journals Earthscan and New Scientist. He has written and edited more than 20 books on science and environment in India. In 1980, Agarwal founded Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), an NGO which is actively working on environmental issues. From 1983 to 1987, Agarwal chaired the world's largest network of environmental NGOs, the Nairobi-based Environment Liasion Centre.
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Agarwal, 51, was once known as India's "Mr Second-hand Machinery" after starting his business empire as a metals trader. He made his fortune helping the government to privatise its mines, and as a result Sterlite Industries, which he formed in 1976, owns some of India's most valuable copper, zinc and aluminium supplies. Last year Agarwal created a holding company, Vedanta Resources, which floated in London to much fanfare in December. His holding is now worth £509m. Agarwal has invested £20m in a home in London's Mayfair and has other interests.
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