Sajjan Jindal

Sajjan Jindal (born 5 December 1959) is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and managing director of JSW Group.

For 2021–22, he was the chairman of World Steel Association. He was replaced by POSCO's Jeong-Woo Choi.

He is one of the sons of Indian businessman and parliamentarian, Om Prakash Jindal. His youngest brother, Naveen, is a Member of Parliament of India from the Bharatiya Janata Party and also leading Jindal Steel and Power.

According to Forbes, Jindal family led by Savitri Jindal is worth US$14.5 billion, as of 2021.

Sajjan Jindal holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore.

In 1982, he joined the OP Jindal Group as a freshly graduated mechanical engineer from Bengaluru, and within a year he moved to Mumbai to look after the western region operations. In 1983–1984, Jindal's father, Om Prakash Jindal put him to the test by ordering him to turn around operations at two facilities near Mumbai.

He promoted Jindal Iron and Steel Company Limited (JISCO), for manufacturing of Cold Rolled and Galvanized Sheet Products in 1989. He promoted Jindal Vijaynagar Steel Limited (JVSL), JSW Energy Limited (JSWEL), Jindal Praxair Oxygen Limited. (JPOCL) and Vijaynagar Minerals Private Limited. (VMPL) to ensure complete integration of the manufacturing progress in 1995. In 2005, his steel companies, JISCO, and JVSL, were merged to form JSW Steel, and a holding group of the same name.

Even before the death of OP Jindal in a helicopter accident in 2005, the group's patriarch established a "division of business" framework. First, he gave Prithviraj, Sajjan, Ratan, and Naveen Jindal equal shares of the existing OP Jindal Group he had built up over the years. Then, Jindal Senior ensured that each of his sons had a cross-holding in the businesses that the brothers were owning individually.