Jan Kulczyk Net Worth

Jan Kulczyk, born June 24, 1950, in Bydgoszcz, is a prominent Polish business oligarch. He is the owner of Kulczyk Holding with headquarters in Warsaw, and an international investment house Kulczyk Investments (former name: Kulczyk Investment House) with headquarters in Luxembourg and offices in London, Kiev and Dubai. According to the Wprost newspaper, his fortune is estimated at PLN 7.8 billion (approximately USD$ 2.4 billion). In 2006 ranked 756 among The World Richest People by Forbes with an estimated net worth of US$1 billion, disappeared from Forbes ranking in 2007 and 2008. In 2010 he emerged on the Forbes' list again, ranked No 463 with the estimated net worth US$2,1 billion. He is also at the top of the Richest Poles list 2010.
Kulczyk is a law graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan as well as a graduate of foreign trade at the University of Economics in Poznan. He holds a Ph.D. in international law. His business activities are a continuation of a family business tradition into the third generation.
The businessman is currently dealing with investments in the following sectors: oil&gas, energy, infrastructure and real estate. Kulczyk Investments holds a 10.1% share in Aurelian Oil&Gas, a company dealing with oil and gas exploration, appraisal and production, 39% in Loon Energy Corporation, holder of an exploration and production concessions in Colombia and Peru, 48.55% in Kulczyk Oil Ventures, a company dealing with oil and gas exploration and production in the Sultanate of Brunei, Syria and Ukraine as well as 7.49% in Ophir Energy, an oil and gas exploration and production company active in Africa.
In 2009 he exchanged his 28% share in in Kompania Piwowarska, a brewing company with a 42% share in the Polish beer market for 3.8% of SABMiller Plc, world's second largest beer producer. Through subsidiaries, he holds 24% in Autostrada Wielkopolska and 40% in Autostrada Wielkopolska II, companies holding a concession to construct and operate