US-educated Ukrainian, who made his fortune from energy sector, knocks Indian industrialist Lakshmi Mittal off number one spot
Len Blavatnik, 57, who has topped this year’s Sunday Times rich list, describes himself as “a major American industrialist”, but the personal and business roots of Britain’s richest man are in the former USSR.
The billionaire investor was born in Odessa, Ukraine, and the yacht he uses for lavish parties at the Cannes film festival is named after the city of his birth.