[Ferro-Alloys.com] The Board of Members of the World Steel Association (worldsteel) has elected the following Executive Board of Directors for the 2020/2021 period. The individuals on the Executive Board of Directors usually hold office for one year, but the Board of Members has in this instance voted to extend the mandates of last year’s Executive Board of Directors due to the COVID-19 pandemic’s interference with their duties at the postponed Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Members and other worldsteel meetings:

 

Chairman – YU Yong, HBIS Group Co., Ltd.

Vice-Chairman – Sajjan JINDAL, JSW Steel Limited

Vice-Chairman – André JOHANNPETER, Gerdau S.A.

Treasurer – Mark VASSELLA, BlueScope Steel Limited

Chairman of the International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) – Bernardo VELÁZQUEZ, ACERINOX S.A.

 

The Board of Members has also elected the 2020/2021 Executive Committee:

 

Salah AL-ANSARI – HADEED, Saudi Iron & Steel Company (a SABIC affiliate)

David BURRITT – United States Steel Corporation

CHEN Derong – China Baowu Steel Group Corporation Limited

Jeong-Woo CHOI – POSCO

U?ur DALBELER – Çolako?lu Metalurji A.?.

Eiji HASHIMOTO – Nippon Steel Corporation

Sajjan JINDAL – JSW Steel Limited

André Bier Gerdau JOHANNPETER – Gerdau S.A.

Yoshihisa KITANO – JFE Steel Corporation

Alexey MORDASHOV – Severstal (PAO)

Thachat Viswanath NARENDRAN – Tata Steel Limited

Paolo ROCCA – Techint Group

Leon TOPALIAN – Nucor Corporation

YU Yong – HBIS Group Co., Ltd.

Hubert ZAJICEK – voestalpine A.G.

 

The Board of Members has also welcomed the following steel producers as regular members:

 

Aço Verde do Brasil (Brazil), represented by Silvia CARVALHO NASCIMENTO

Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills (Bangladesh), represented by Tapan SENGUPTA

Diler Iron and Steel Company Inc. (Turkey), represented by Hüssam BA?TUG

Feng Hsin Steel Co., Ltd. (Taiwan, China), respresented by Chi-Jui (Jeffrey) LIN

GRUPO ACERERO (Mexico), represented by Humberto ABAROA LÓPEZ

Kaptan Demir Çelik Endustrisi ve Ticaret A.?. (Turkey), represented by Tolga SARI

Kroman Çelik Sanayii A.?. (Turkey), represented by Suat OKTAR

 

The following is welcomed as an affiliated member:

 

Steel Construction Development Association (Russian Federation), represented by Alexander DANILOV

 

Source: worldsteel