Before the service of the new King of steel

Stainless. World steel bases have shake lashes of mega-mergers or hostile OPA, Arbed can disappear in favour of Arcelor and it get absorbed by Mittal Steel, nothing seems likely to hinder the career of Michel Wurth. Fifty-two years, this highly influential Luxembourg in the Grand Duchy he chairs the Board of trade of the micro-Etat and the Union of Luxembourg enterprises, local Medef kind is one of the major barons of the steel empire from the fusion between the numbers one and two global steel. In August, it became, with his countryman Roland Junck and the Spanish Gonzalo Urquijo, one of the three former leaders of Arcelor General management of Arcelor-Mittal. His fee A wide range including the flat steel in Europe, the automotive industry globally, the plates these large industrial parts manufactured by Industeel, ex-Creusot-Loire and the coordination of any research and development of Arcelor-Mittal, carried out for three quarters on the Continent. But this is not everything. These many responsibilities is also in effect for a few days the position of CEO of Arcelor France, left vacant by Guy Dollé.

A career in the shadow of the blast

As the latter, Michel Wurth has made throughout his career in the shadow of the blast. After unsuccessfully cherished the hope of becoming enarque, as an agreement between the two countries the in offering him the opportunity, young graduated from the IEP of Grenoble and the London School of Economics (LSE), also holds a master of law and also speaking German than French, struck in 1979 at the door of Arbed. He learned his trade of financier in carrying out the record of the financial restructuring of the company, struck as all its competitors by the crisis in the sector, before becoming "the official scribe" of the Board of Directors and branch, position strategic is when you're young and we have ambition.

Noticed by Joseph Kinsch, the Patriarch of the Luxembourg steel industry, he will manage then mergers. Many steps which will prepare its accession in 1996 at the head of financial management.

It is this position that he negotiated including the strategic alliance with the Spanish Aceralia, in 1997, then merge with Usinor parities. Preferred to Robert Hudry, his French counterpart, it becomes, to the creation of Arcelor in February 2002, Director-General in charge of finance and the pilotage by objectives. Four years later, on the eve of the clap of Thunder caused by Lakshmi Mittal, Guy Dollé promotes number two of Arcelor and assigns the responsibility of the flat steel in the world, transforming the "pure and hard financial" in industrial. A way to prepare to take a day succession at the head of the Group The hypothesis has been raised, but obviously, it ceased to be news after the purchase by Mittal Steel. Pragmatic, Michel Wurth has apparently no regrets: "These are the shareholders who wanted that the merger will be." After spent all his influence to the belgo-luxembourgeoises authorities to try to counter the Indian offensive, it has thus contributed to negotiate, in June, the terms of surrender with the winner of the stock market battle. Before the service of the new King of steel.