Lakshmi Mittal
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Lakshmi N. Mittal is President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Arcelormittal. He founded Mittal Steel Company in 1976 in 2006 merged it with Arcelor, resulting in the world’s largest steel maker.
He was awarded Fortune magazine’s “European Businessman of the Year 2004” and the Financial Time’s “Person of the Year 2006”, and received the 2007 Dwight D. Eisenhower Global Leadership Award and the Padma Vibhushan by the President of India.
He is a member of the board for EADS, ICICI Bank Limited, the Foreign Investment Council in Kazakhstan, the International Investment Council in South Africa, the Presidential International Advisory Board of Mozambique, the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council, the International Iron and Steel Institute, the Kellogg School of Management, Citigroup, and the Investors’ Council at Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
