Anne van Ysendyck is vice president of ArcelorMittal and head of government affairs and environment, ArcelorMittal Europe. Anne joined ArcelorMittal in August 2005 as legal counsel for compliance and became general manager and senior legal counsel for competition law and M&A in 2007, after working for the DG Competition of the European Commission and for several international law firms. In 2011, she was nominated vice president of ArcelorMittal and took the position of head of legal, risk & compliance for ArcelorMittal Mining, before becoming group general counsel & company secretary in 2016. She temporarily left the group at the end of 2017, to join the International Olympic Committee as director of legal affairs. Anne re-joined ArcelorMittal in 2019, as vice president Legal. She has been in her current role since July 2021. Anne holds a master’s degree in political science and law from the University Robert Schuman in Strasbourg, France, and is registered as a solicitor at the Law Society of England and Wales.
