Lakshmi N. Mittal

Mr. Lakshmi N. Mittal is the Chairman and Chief Executive of ArcelorMittal, a renowned global businessman who serves on the boards of various advisory councils, and an active philanthropist engaged in the fields of education and child health. Mr Mittal was born in Sadulpur in Rajasthan in 1950. Mr. Mittal graduated from St Xavier’s College in Kolkata, where he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

Having completed his education in India, Mr. Mittal began his career working in his family’s steel-making business in India before moving to Indonesia in 1976 to set up a small steel company that over time grew to become ArcelorMittal, the world’s leading steel company and one of the foremost industrial companies in the world.

Mr. Mittal is widely recognized for the role he played in restructuring the steel industry towards a more consolidated and globalized model, pursuing and successfully integrating many acquisitions in North America, South America, Europe, South Africa and the CIS. ArcelorMittal continues today to be the largest and most global steel manufacturer. The then Mittal Steel became the world’s leading steel producer in 2004 following the merger of Ispat International and LNM Holdings and the simultaneous acquisition of International Steel Group. Shortly after, in 2006, Mittal Steel launched an ambitious bid to merge with Arcelor which created ArcelorMittal.

Mr. Mittal’s contribution to business and global industry has been widely recognized.

In 1996 he was awarded “Steelmaker of the Year” by New Steel in the United States and in 1998 the “Willy Korf Steel Vision Award” by World Steel Dynamics for outstanding vision, entrepreneurship, leadership and success in global steel development. He was named Fortune magazine’s “European Businessman of the Year” in 2004 and “Business Person of the year” by the Sunday Times, “International Newsmaker of the Year” by Time Magazine and “Person of the Year” by the Financial Times in 2006 for his outstanding business achievements.

In January 2007 Mr. Mittal was presented with a Fellowship from King’s College London, the college’s highest award. He also received in 2007 the Dwight D. Eisenhower Global Leadership Award, the Grand Cross of Civil Merit from Spain and was named AIST Steelmaker of the year. In January 2008, Mr. Mittal was the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian honor, by the President of India. In September 2008, Mr. Mittal was chosen for the third “Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award.” In October 2010 he was awarded World Steel Association’s medal in recognition of his services to the Association as its Chairman and also for his contribution 28 to the sustainable development of the global steel industry. In January 2013, Mr. Mittal was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland.

In addition to his role at ArcelorMittal, Mr. Mittal is an active participant of various boards and advisory councils. Mr. Mittal is a member of the board of Goldman Sachs. He previously sat on the board of Airbus N.V. He is a member of the Foreign Investment Council in Kazakhstan, the Global CEO Council of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council, the World Steel Association’s Executive Committee, the European Round Table of Industrialists, the Indian School of Business and a member of the board of Trustees of Cleveland Clinic. Mr. Mittal, with his wife Usha Mittal, is also an active philanthropist. He recently made a significant gift to Harvard to support the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute and is a member of the Global Advisory Council of Harvard University. The Mittal family have also made important gifts to Great Ormond Street Hospital, supporting the Mittal Children’s Medical Centre which formally opened in January 2018 and UNICEF, specifically on the topic of child malnutrition in India. Mr. Mittal is married to Usha Mittal. They have a son, Aditya Mittal, and a daughter, Vanisha Mittal Bhatia. Mr Mittal is a citizen of India.