Eike Batista Estimated Net Worth In 2011: $30 Billion (USD) Eike Batista (3 November 1956) is a Brazilian business baron. He is the son of Eliezer Batista da Silva, a longtime head of mining company Vale and his German wife Jutta Fuhrken. He has founded companies in different business sectors, mainly in mining. As of March 2011, he is the eighth richest person in the world. Batista spent most of his childhood in Europe. He lived in Germany from 1969 to 1980, and began studying engineering at Aachen University but dropped out of college without completing his degree. In 1980, he moved back to Brazil to begin a gold and trading company...