Latest Update: Akshata Murty & Career Highlights Net Worth 2026: Career Earnings & Assets

Many fans are curious about Akshata Murty's financial success in April 2026. In this article, we dive deep into the assets and career highlights.

What is Akshata Murty's net worth?

Akshata's father,N.R. Narayana Murthy(the spelling of the last name is different for the father) is worth $4.6 billion. That makes him one of the15 richest people in India. Akshata has one brother, Rohan Murty.

Akshata attended the prestigious Baldwin Girls' High School in Bangalore then earned an undergraduate degree in French and Economics from Claremont McKenna College in California. While in California she also earned a degree in clothes manufacturing from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.

Rishi and Akshata (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

Akshata Murty was born in April 1980 in Hubli, India. Her mother Sudha was the first female engineer hired by India's largest car maker, TATA Engineering and Locomotive Company. Sudha got the job after writing a letter TATA's Chairman in which she complained that the company had zero female engineers. The letter landed her an interview and then a job. Today Sudha is a philanthropist and member of the Gates Foundation.

Akshata Murty is an Indian heiress, investor and fashion designer who has a net worth of $800 million. Akshata Murty's husband Rishi Sunak is a British politician who, as of this writing, is the front-runner to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The couple's wealth is almost entirely attributable to Akshata. Akshata's wealth comes from a 0.93% stake in India's second-largest IT company Infosys, which was founded by her father N.R. Narayana Murthy. If Rishi does indeed become Prime Minister of the U.K., it will be the first time in history that thePM is actually richer than the sitting monarch, in his caseKing Charles.

In 2022, as her husband's profile expanded during the July 2022 Prime Minister shakeup, it was revealed that Akshata owns 0.93% of Infosys, approximately 39 million shares of the publicly-traded company. Furthermore it was revealed that in the previous year Akshata earned $14 million worth of dividends from the company.

In 2006 she enrolled in Stanford University's MBA program. One of her fellow grad students at Stanford was her future husband,Rishi Sunak. They married in 2009 and today have two daughters.

Infosys is the second-largest Information Technology firm in India. The publicly-traded company (NYSE: INFY) generates $16 billion per year revenue and $4 billion in profits. As of this writing the company's market cap is $80 billion but in recent times the valuation has been north of $100 billion. Using a $80 billion market cap, Akshata's 39 million shares are worth around $744 million. At the end of 2021, when the British pound was trading at healthy levels against the dollar AND when Infosys' market cap was north of $110 billion, Akshata's stake made her US-dollar billionaire on paper.

Ultimately, Akshata Murty's financial journey is a testament to their success.

Disclaimer: All net worth figures are estimates based on public data.