Sunny Varkey

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sunny Varkey
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Apr 9, 1957(1957-04-09)
Age	67
Birthplace	Kerala
Country	India
Horoscope	Aries

Sunny Varkey Biography

Sunny Varkey is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on April 9, 1957 in Kerala, India.

Sunny Varkey (born 9 April 1957) is a non-resident Indian, Dubai-based education entrepreneur and education philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of the global advisory and educational management firm GEMS Education, which is the largest operator of private kindergarten-to-grade-12 schools in the world, with a network of over 130 schools in over a dozen countries. He is also the chairman of the umbrella business organisation the Varkey Group, and the founder and trustee of the philanthropic Varkey Foundation. As of 2012, Varkey is also a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. And in June 2015, Varkey committed to The Giving Pledge, vowing to donate at least half of his money to philanthropic causes over his lifetime. He is the first education entrepreneur to join the pledge.

The discovery of oil in Dubai in 1966 brought in many foreign workers, including many from the Indian subcontinent; with the increased demand for an English-language education for the children of Indian expatriates, Varkey’s parents founded Our Own English High School in Dubai in 1968. Varkey returned to Dubai in 1977, and his employment included work at Standard Chartered bank, opening a small trading company and a maintenance company, becoming part owner of the Dubai Plaza Hotel, and entering the healthcare industry.

Sunny Varkey Net Worth

Sunny Varkey is one of the richest Entrepreneur from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sunny Varkey 's net worth $1.8 billion (March 2020). (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Varkey was born in Kerala, India in 1957. His father, KS, and mother, Miriamma, were Kerala Christians, and educators. The family moved to Dubai in 1959, when the emirate was still very undeveloped. His father worked for British Bank of the Middle East, and both of his parents taught English to local Arabs, including members of the royal family. At the age of four, Sunny was sent back to Kerala to attend Infant Jesus School, a Catholic boarding school in Kollam city. When he was 11 years old, he sold fruit on the side of the road to make a little extra money. He and his elder sister returned to Dubai in 1970, and Sunny completed his O-Levels at St. Mary’s Catholic High School. He pursued his A-Levels at Bembridge School in the UK for a year, and completed his A-Levels in Dubai at the British Council.

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In 2004, Varkey’s GEMS group opened its first schools in India. Varkey continued to add schools in the subcontinent, and also purchased a controlling interest in the India-based Everonn Education, which the Varkey Group and GEMS manage. GEMS subsequently opened schools in Kenya, Uganda, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Singapore, the U.S., Switzerland, and elsewhere around the globe. It is the largest operator of private kindergarten-to-grade-12 schools in the world, and as of 2014 has over 130 schools in over a dozen countries.

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Susan Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Sunny Varkey celebrates birthday on April 9 of every year.

In March 2011, the foundation partnered with UNESCO for girls’ education in Lesotho and Kenya, and donated $1,000,000 to the effort. In September 2011, a further $1 million was pledged with UNESCO to train 10,000 school principals in India, Ghana, and Kenya. In 2014, the foundation’s Teacher Training Programme committed to train 250,000 teachers within 10 years in under-served communities across the world.