World Steel Association selects new members for 2019-2020

The World Steel Association Board of Directors elected the next new officers for 2019/2020 at the World General Assembly in Monterrey.

New officials are elected for a period of one year.
Chairman - Yoo Yoon, Chairman, HBIS Group Co Ltd.
Vice Chairman - Sajan Jindal, Chairman and Managing Director, JSW Steel Limited.
Vice Chairman - André JOHANNPETER, Executive Vice Chairman,
Treasurer Gerdau SA - Roger NEWPORT, Chief Executive Officer, AK Steel

The Board of Directors also elected the Executive Committee for 2019/20:
CHENG Derong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of China Baowu Steel Group Corporation Limited
Jung Woo CHOI, Chief Executive Officer, POSCO
Eiji HASHIMOTO, Representative and President, Nippon Steel Corporation
Sajan JINDAL, Chairman and Managing Director, JSW Steel Limited
André JOHANNPETER, Executive Vice President, Gerdau SA
KOJI KAKIGI, President and CEO, JFE Steel Corporation
Lakshmi Mittal, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ArcelorMittal
Alexey MORDASHOV, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Severstal
Tachat Viswanath NARENDRAN, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Tata Steel Limited
Roger NEWPORT, CEO of AK Steel Corporation
Paolo ROSSA, President and CEO of Techint Group
Leon TOPALIAN, President and Chief Operating Officer, Nucor Corporation
Yu Yun, Chairman - HBIS Group Co., Ltd
Edwin BASSON, CEO of the World Steel Association (worldsteel)

The Board of Directors also welcomed the following steel producers as permanent members of worldsteel:
Algerian Qatari steel (Algeria) represented by Youssef Ahmed AL-MUKHANNADI
AZA (Chile) represented by Herman VONA MUHLENBROK
Big River Steel (USA) represented by David STICKLER
Chelyabinsk Pipe Plant PJSC (Russian Federation) represented by Boris Kovalenkov
RL Steels and Energy Limited (India) represented by Nitin Narendrakumar GUPTA

The following persons are encouraged: affiliates:
Corporation Chermet (Russian Federation) represented by Yuri MISHIN JPC
: Joint Factory Committee (India) represented by Ranjan BANDYOPADHYAY
NCSI: National Steel Industry Committee (Saudi Arabia) represented by Mohammed Al Jabr.