Brussels Metropolitan Area
Jeroen Vermeij has well over 35 years of experience in the steel industry. After completion of his mechanical engineering studies, he started his career in 1977 at TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research. In 1979 he moved to the R&D department of Dutch steelmaker Hoogovens. He followed additional studies in economics and industrial marketing and holds a master’s degree in business marketing from TIASNimbas Business School in the Netherlands. For most of his career, he has been working in the field of economic & steel market analysis and strategic marketing at Hoogovens and later Corus (the merger between Hoogovens of the Netherlands and British Steel of the UK). His last position at Corus was manager market intelligence at the Ijmuiden operations of Corus in the Netherlands. Since 2007, he is Director Market Analysis and Economic Studies at EUROFER (Brussels). He has been a long-time member of prestigious economic steel industry committees such as the United Nations Steel Committee (chairman 2000-2001), WorldSteel Economic Committee, EUROFER Economic Committee (chairman since 2004). He has been asked to speak at many international conferences related to the steel market. He is a lecturer at the annual SteelMaster/EuroSteelMaster Course in Italy.