Muhammad Aziz Khan, chairman of Summit Group, has secured his name as the first Bangladeshi billionaire to be included in the World’s Billionaires List 2024 published by "Forbes", an American business magazine.

He ranked 2045th in the list, which featured 2,781 billionaires from 78 countries.

According to “Forbes”, Aziz Khan owns wealth worth of $1.1 billion.

He was first named in the Forbes Singapore list in 2018 when his net worth was $910 million. After a brief decline in 2019, his net worth soared to $955 million and $990 million in 2020 and 2021 respectively. 

In 2022, his net worth stood at $1 billion, and in 2023 at $1.12 billion.

Aziz’s Summit Group is one of the leading private sector conglomerates of Bangladesh, having more than 20 businesses in power, ports, fibre optics and real estate sectors.

Business tycoon Bernard Arnault & family tops the list while Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerbergh, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Mukesh Ambani and Larry Page have also confirmed their position in the top 10 postion.