ILAFA - Instituto Latinoamericano del Fierro y el Acero

History

Objectives

ILAFA Organization

Authorities and Staff

Members

Executive Committee

Board of Directors

Advisory Committees

General Secretariat

Regional Secretariats

AUTHORITIES AND STAFF

Executive Committee

	CHAIRMAN: André Gerdau Johannpeter (Brazil)

He graduated in Business Administration at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). General Business Administration at the University of Toronto (Canada). Marketing at Ashridge (England). Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (United States). CEO of Gerdau. Member of Gerdau Ameristeel Administrative Council. Vice President of the Instituto Aço Brasil.

	1ST VICE CHAIRMAN: Daniel Novegil (Argentina)

Industrial Engineer from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Master of Science in Management from Stanford University (United States). Executive courses at the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (A.O.T.S.) (Japan), at the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) (United States) and at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (United States). CEO of Ternium. Chairman of the Committee on Economic Studies and member of the Board of World Steel Association. Member of the Advisory Board of the Sloan Master Program, School of Bussiness, Stanford University (United States).

	2ND VICE CHAIRMAN: Oscar Augusto Machado Koeneke (Venezuela)

Industrial Engineer from the Catholic University Andrés Bello (Venezuela). President of Siderúrgica Venezolana SIVENSA, S.A.

	SECRETARY: Roberto de Andraca Barbas (Chile)

Business Administration from the University of Chile. Chairman of the Board of CAP Group. Chairman of the Board of Invercap S.A. Chairman of the Board of Cintac S.A. Chairman of the Chilean Chapter of the Chile-Japan Business Cooperation Committee. Chairman of the Chilean Chapter of the 21st Century Committee, between Chile and Japan. Vice Chairman of the Chilean Foundation of the Pacific. Chairman of the Superior Board of Counselors of Diego Portales University. Counselor of the Center of Public Studies of Chile.

	DIRECTOR: Pakkam Saranadhi Venkataramanan (Mexico)

Master of Science and Master of Arts from Madras University (India). CEO of Long Carbon North America (USA & Canada) for ArcelorMittal. President of the Board, ArcelorMittal México. President of Mexico’s National Chamber of Iron and Steel Industries (Canacero). Member on the Board of Directors of the Steel Manufacturing Association and the Canadian Steel Producers Association.