Lakshmi N Mittal, 61, is the Chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal. Mr. Mittal started his carreer in steel in 1976 by founding Ispat Indo, a company that is still held privately by the Mittal family. He founded Mittal Steel Company (formerly the LNM Group) in 1989 and guided its strategic development, culminating in the merger in 2006 with Arcelor, to form the worlds largest steelmaker. He is widely recognized for the leading role he has played in restructuring the steel industry towards a more consolidated and globalized model. Mr. Mittal is an active philanthropist and a member of various boards and trusts, including the boards of Goldman Sachs and European Aeronautic Defence & Space Company (EADS) N.V. He is a member of the Indian Prime Ministers Global Advisory Council, the Foreign Investment Council in Kazakhstan, the Ukrainian Presidents Domestic and Foreign Investors Advisory Council, the World Economic Forums International Business Council, the World Steel Associations Executive Committee and the Presidential International Advisory Board of Mozambique. He also sits on the Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management and on the Board of Trustees of Cleveland Clinic in the United States. Mr. Mittal began his career working in his familys steelmaking business in India, and has over 35 years of experience working in steel and related industries. In addition to spearheading the steel industrys consolidation, he championed the development of integrated mini-mills and the use of Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) as a scrap substitute for steelmaking. Following the merger of Ispat International and LNM Holdings to form Mittal Steel in December 2004, with the simultaneous acquisition of International Steel Group, he led the formation of the worlds then-leading steel producer. In 2006 he merged Mittal Steel and Arcelor to form ArcelorMittal. Mr. Mittal then led a successful integration of two large entities to firmly