Ram Buxani

Ram Buxani (1941 – 8 July 2024) was an Indian businessman and chairman of the business conglomerate ITL Cosmos Group. He became a well-known figure in the Indian community after his role in influencing the Indian government to abolish estate duty in 1985.

Personal life Buxani was born in 1941 in Hyderabad, Sindh in British India.

At the age of 18, in order to support his widowed mother and family, he started to search for a job in Mumbai. After seeing an advertisement in a local newspaper, he applied for a job as an executive assistant with International Traders Limited in Dubai. Buxani started working in 1959 as an office clerk at the ITL outpost at Dubai and eventually rose to chair the Cosmos ITL group in 2014.

Buxani was also a writer and actor, having acted in 28 plays.

Buxani died in Dubai on 8 July 2024, at the age of 83.

Career Buxani was a director of IndusInd Bank from 2000 to 2008. From 2000 to 2004, he was the chairman of the board of The Indian High School, Dubai. He was also instrumental in supporting and arranging temporary shelter for the NRIs fleeing from Kuwait en route to India during the Invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990. 2016 and 2017, and awarded him its "Lifetime Achievement Award" in 2017.

Education In 2004, he obtained a Ph.D. degree in International Business from Washington International University, an online unaccredited institution.