Carlos Ghosn

Carlos Ghosn

Chief Executive Officer at Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance

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Carlos Ghosn, KBE (born March 9, 1954) is a French-Lebanese-Brazilian businessman born in Porto Velho, Brazil. He was the Chairman and CEO of Paris-based Renault (from 2005 to 2019), of Japan-based Nissan (from 2017 to 2018), Chairman of Russian automobile manufacturer AvtoVAZ and Chairman of Mitsubishi Motors. He was also Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance. Now, Carlos Ghosn is an internationnally wanted fugitive who fled from Japan, were he was arrested in november 2018, to hide in Lebanon.



After his radical restructuring of Renault that returned that company to profitability in the late 1990s Ghosn became known as "Le Cost Killer". In the early 2000s, for orchestrating one of the auto industry's most aggressive downsizing campaigns and spearheading the turnaround of Nissan from its near bankruptcy in 1999, he earned the nickname "Mr. Fix It".



Following the Nissan financial turnaround, in 2002 Fortune awarded him Asia Businessman of the Year. In 2003 Fortune identified him as one of the 10 most powerful people in business outside the U.S., and its Asian edition voted him Man of the Year. and the third most respected business leader in 2004 and in 2005. He quickly achieved celebrity status in Japan and in the business world, and his life has been chronicled in a Japanese manga comic book. Ghosn has been asked to run at least two other automakers, General Motors and Ford. His decision to spend €4 billion (more than $5 billion) so Renault and Nissan could jointly develop an entire lineup of electric cars including the Nissan Leaf, billed as "the world's first affordable zero-emission car", is one of the four subjects of the 2011 documentary Revenge of the Electric Car.



Early life and education

Ghosn's grandfather Bichara Ghosn emigrated from Lebanon to Brazil at the age of 13, eventually settling in remote Guaporé, Rondônia, near the border between Brazil and Bolivia. Bichara Ghosn was an entrepreneur and eventually headed several companies, in fields including the rubber trade, the sale and purchase of agricultural products, and aviation. His son Jorge Ghosn married a Nigerian-born woman whose family also came from Lebanon, and they settled in the Rondônia capital of Porto Velho.



Carlos Ghosn was born on March 9, 1954 in Porto Velho. When he was about two years old he became sick after drinking unsanitary water, and his mother moved with him to Rio de Janeiro. He graduated with university engineering degrees from the École Polytechnique in 1974 and the École des Mines de Paris in 1978.



Career

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Carlos Ghosn active positions

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Chairman 2005-03-31
Chief Executive Officer 2011-12-31
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Mobiliz Invest SAS Chairman -
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St. Joseph University Corporate Officer/Principal -
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Reanult Nissan Chairman 2005-03-31
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Training of Carlos Ghosn

Ecole Polytechnique Undergraduate Degree
École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris Undergraduate Degree

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RENAULT

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NISSAN MOTOR CO LTD

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MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORPORATION

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