Lakshmi Niwas Mittal (born 15 June 1950), is an Indian industrialist based in the United Kingdom. He was born in Sadulpur village, in the Churu district of Rajasthan, India, and he resides in Kensington, London. He is the CEO and founder of and has been the chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal since the merge. He also serves as a non-executive director of Goldman Sachs, EADS and ICICI Bank.
拉克希米尼瓦斯米塔尔(1950年6月15日出生)是一位常居英国的印度裔工业家，在印度拉 贾斯坦邦楚卢县的Sadulpui村出生，现定居于伦敦肯辛顿。他是合 并后的阿赛洛米塔尔钢铁公司的创始人和首席执行官,也曾任董事 长和首席执行官。他同时也是高盛集团、欧洲宇航防务集团和印度 工业信贷投资银行的非执行董事。
In 2008, Mittal was reported to be the 4th wealthiest person in the world, and the wealthiest in Asia, by Forbes Magazine (up from 61st richest in 2004) up one place since a year before. The Mittal family owns a controlling majority stake in ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel company. As in 2009，He is the richest person in the United Kingdom with personal wealth of US$19.3 billion. The London-based, Rajasthan-born steel baron is the Chairman and CEO of MittalCompany and the world’s 8th richest man.
2008年，根据《福布斯杂志》的报道,米塔尔是全球第四富有的 人，同时也是亚洲首富(2004位列富豪榜第61位），比去年的排名上 升了一位。米塔尔家族握有全球最大的阿赛洛米塔尔钢铁公司的绝 大多数股份。截止到2009年，米塔尔是英国最富有的人，拥有193亿 美元的个人财富。这位出生在拉贾斯坦邦楚卢的英国钢铁巨人，身 兼米塔尔公司的董事长和首席执行官职务，同时也是全球排名第八 的富翁。
Lakshmi graduated from St. Xavier’s College in Calcutta where he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He later married Usha Mittal, and had a son and a daughter.
拉克希米毕业于加尔各答的圣塞维尔大学,并在那获得商务学 士学位。之后同乌莎米塔尔结婚，并有一儿一女。
Mittal began his career working in the family’s steelmaking business in India, and has over 30 years of experience working in steel and related industries. Mittal founded the company Mittal Steel (formerly the LNM Group) in 1976 and has been responsible for the development of its businesses ever since. Mittal Steel is a global steel producer with operations in 14 countries.
米塔尔在印度就开始为家族经营钢铁制造业务，并且拥有30年 的相关工作经验。米塔尔在1976年创办了米塔尔钢铁公司(之前为 LNM集团）并且自此以后对公司业务发展全权负责。米塔尔钢铁是 一家在14个国家拥有业务的国际钢铁公司。
Mittal pioneered the development of integrated mini-mills and the use of Direct Reduced Iron or “DRi” as a scrap substitute for steelmaking and led the consolidation process of the global steel industry. Mittal Steel is the largest steelmaker in the world, with shipments of 42.1 million tons of steel and profits of over $22 billion in 2004. Mittal was awarded Fortune Magazine “European Businessman of the Year 2004” and also “Steelmaker of the Year” in 1996 by New Steel, and the “Willy Korf Steel Vision Award” in 1998, for outstanding vision, entrepreneurship, leadership and success in global steel development.
米塔尔率先领导了综合小型炼钢厂的发展和在炼钢中使用直 接还原钢作为废料替代物，并且他还引领了全球钢铁工业的整合过 程。米塔尔钢铁公司是全球最大的钢铁制造商，2004年运送共4210万吨钢铁，盈利超过220亿美元。由于他卓越的见识、企业家精神和 领导力’以及他对全球钢铁发展中取得的成功，米塔尔被《福布斯 杂志》授予“2004年度最佳欧洲商人”，1996年被新钢铁授予“年度 钢铁制造商”，1998年获得“威利克夫钢铁远见奖”。
In 2002 he was involved in a political scandal with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, when a donation he made to the Labour party led to Blair’s intervention in a business deal favoring Mittal. It was announced later that he donated ￡ 2 million to the Labour Party.
2002年，他被卷入一起同布莱尔首相有关的丑闻，当时他赠与 了布莱尔领导的工党一笔款项，让他们在一桩商业协议中偏袒米 塔尔。之后，他被揭露向工党捐赠200万英镑。
Mittal is an active philanthropist and a member of a few trusts. Mittal is a member of the Foreign Investment Council in Kazakhstan, the International Investment Council in South Africa, the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council and the International Iron and Steel Institute’s Executive Committee. In March 2005, Forbes Magazine named him the 3rd richest man in the world and the richest non-American, with an estimated wealth of US$25 billion.
米塔尔是一位活跃的慈善家，同时也是几个信托委员会的会 员。他分别是哈萨克斯坦外国投资协会、南非国际投资机构、全球 经济论坛国际商务协会和国际钢铁组织执行委员会等机构的成 员。2005年3月，根据《福布斯杂志》的报道，他是全球排名第三的富 翁，同时也是最有钱的非美国籍人士,身价估计达到250亿美元。
After witnessing India win only one medal, bronze, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and one medal, silver, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Mittal decided to set up Mittal Champions Trust with USS9 million to support 10 Indian athletes with world-beating potential.
在2000年夏季奥运会，见证了印度仅仅夺得了一银一铜，而在2004年的夏季奥运会仅获得了 一块银牌的成绩后,米塔尔决定建立一个米塔尔冠军基金,花费900万美元来支持10位拥有震撼世 界潜力的的印度运动员。
Mittal’s house in Kensington, London is decorated with marble taken from the same quarry that supplied the Taj Mahal. The extravagant show of wealth has been deemed the “Taj Mittal”. The Financial Times named Lakshmi Mittal its 2006 Person of the Year. In May 2007, he was named one of the “100 Most Influential People” by Time magazine.
米塔尔在伦敦肯辛顿的住宅,选用与泰姬陵同样的大理石进行装饰。这种奢华的炫富行为使 得他的住宅被称为“米塔尔陵”。财经时报将拉克希米米塔尔提名为2006年年度人物。2007年5 月，他被时代杂志提名为“最具影响力100人”之一。