Chairman of the Chile-Japan Entrepreneurial Committee.
Advisor for Latin America of the Entrepreneurial Committee for Sustainable Development, Switzerland.
Business Administrator, University of Chile.
1ST VICE CHAIRMAN: Oscar Augusto Machado Koeneke (Venezuela)
CEO and member of the Board of Directors of Siderúrgica Venezolana (Sivensa).
Chairman of Venezuela Competitiva.
Advisor for the Venezuelan Association of Executives and of the Venezuelan Steel Institute (IVES).
Member of the Board of Directors of Electricidad Caracas, Banco Mercantil, Caracas Airport, and the Promotion Council of the Catholic University Andrés Bello and Metropolitan University Foundation.
Industrial Engineer, Catholic University Andrés Bello.
2ND VICE CHAIRMAN: Rinaldo Campos Soares (Brazil)
Director President of Usinas Siderúrgicas de Minas Gerais (Usiminas) and Chairman of Companhia Siderúrgica Paulista (Cosipa) and Usiminas Mecânica, S.A.
Vice Chairman of the Administration Board of Ternium.
Member of the administration boards of Usifast, Siderar, Sidor, and Confab.
Member of the Economic and Social Development Board of the Presidency of Brazil.
Honorary General Consul of Japan.
Mining and Metallurgical Engineer, Mining School of Ouro Preto, and Doctor in Metallurgy, University of Paris.
SECRETARY: Daniel Novegil (Argentina)
CEO of Ternium.
CEO of Siderar.
Executive Vice Chairman, Flats and Longs, of Organización Techint.
Executive Vice Chairman of Siderar and Director of the Board of Sidor.
Director of Stanford Sloan Program Advisory Board of Stanford University (USA).
Master of Science in Management from Stanford University (USA) in 1983-1984.
Executive studies at: A.O.T.S. (Japan, 1991); Sloan School of Management - M.I.T. (Executive Course in Corporate Strategy, USA, 1995); and The Warton School-University of Pennsylvania (President's Seminar, USA, 1997).
Industrial Engineer, University of Buenos Aires.
DIRECTOR: Raúl Gutiérrez Muguerza
Director General of Deacero, S.A. de C.V.
Industrial Engineer, graduated from Purdue University.
President and counselor in several business organizations, banks, organizations and museums in Mexico.
ILAFA has Regional Secretariats in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela, which are in charge of providing the General Secretariat with updated information on local statistics, such as: production, consumption, capacities, direct and indirect trade, and others related to the steel industry. They also provide information on news, current issues, meetings on steel at national and international level, statements and/or actions taken by governments and private non-governmental organizations or of a nature related –directly and indirectly- to local steel producing companies and raw material suppliers.
ARGENTINA
BRAZIL
Luis Alberto Diez, Secretario Regional
Pasaje Dr. Ricardo Rojas 401, 4º Piso
C1001AEA, Buenos Aires
Telephone: (54-11) 4311-6368 / 6371
Fax: (54-11) 4311-3710
E-mail:
Rudolf R. Bühler, Secretario Regional
Av. Rio Branco 181, 28º Andar
20040-007 Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Telephone: (55-21) 2141-0001
Fax: (55-21) 2262-2234
E-mail:
COLOMBIA
MEXICO
Juan Manuel Lesmes, Secretario Regional
Calle 73 Nº 8-13, Piso 7
Santafé de Bogotá, D.C.
Telephone: (57-1) 326-8500, 326-8525
Fax: (57-1) 340-2814
E-mail:
Latin American Iron and Steel Institute - ILAFA
Benjamín 2944, 5º Piso - Las Condes - Santiago - CHILE - Tel: (56-2) 233-0545 / Fax: (56-2) 233-0768 - E-mail: ilafa@ilafa.org
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