Kuok Khoon Hong

Chairs and runs world's largest palm oil firm, Wilmar International, which bought Sucrogen, the largest raw sugar producer in Australia and maker of fuel ethanol, for $1.5 billion. It is building a biochemical refinery in Indonesia and expanding into property in China. Started out as a flour trader working for his uncle, Malaysian billionaire Robert Kuok. Struck out on his own, partnering with Indonesia's Martua Sitorus to buy a small palm oil plantation in Sumatra. Later merged their Wilmar with the senior Kuok's plantation and agribusiness group, converting it into palm oil giant