Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter
Chairman
Iron and Steel
Gerdau
Brazil
Biography
Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter is a Brazilian businessman of German descent, great-grandson of Johann Heinrich Kaspar Gerdau, Gerdau Group's founder. He held various positions within the Gerdau Group, and was its CEO from 1983 to 2006. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gerdau until 2015. Since 2011, he became president of the Chamber of Management Policies, Performance and Competitiveness (CGDC), an organization linked to the Presidency of Brazil. As a member of the Dilma Rousseff government, he has advocated the reduction in the number of ministries, which he considered to be excessive
Research Interest
Business and Management
