Mr. Mittal is the Executive Chairman of ArcelorMittal. He was previously chief executive officer of ArcelorMittal. He is a renowned global businessman who serves on the boards of various advisory councils, and is an active philanthropist engaged in the fields of education and child health.
Mr. Mittal graduated from St. Xavier’s College in Kolkata, where he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He began his career working in his family’s steelmaking business in India before moving to Indonesia in 1976 to set up a small steel company that grew to become ArcelorMittal, the world’s leading steel and mining company and one of the foremost industrial companies in the world. He is widely recognized for the role he played in restructuring the steel industry toward a more consolidated and globalized model, pursuing and successfully integrating many acquisitions in North America, South America, Europe, South Africa, and the CIS. Today, ArcelorMittal continues to be the largest and most global steel manufacturer.
In addition to his role at ArcelorMittal, Mr. Mittal is an active participant of various boards and advisory councils. He is chairman of the board of Aperam and a member of the board of Goldman Sachs. He previously sat on the board of Airbus NV. He is a member of the Foreign Investment Council in Kazakhstan, the National Investment Council of Ukraine, 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 is a member of the board of Trustees of Cleveland Clinic.
Mr. Mittal and his wife, Usha Mittal, are active philanthropists. In 2017, the Mittal family made a significant gift to Harvard University, where Mr. Mittal is a member of the Global Advisory Council, to support the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University. The Mittal family has also made important gifts to the 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.
