Naveen Jindal was born on 9 March 1970 in Hisar, Haryana, the youngest son of industrialist and politician Om Prakash Jindal and Savitri Jindal, both of whom served as ministers in the Haryana government. He studied at Campus School, CCS HAU, and Delhi Public School, graduated in commerce from Hans Raj College, University of Delhi (1990), and earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas (1992), where he was student government president.