Eliezer Batista | |
Office: | President of Vale S.A. |
Term Start: | 1979 |
Term End: | 1986 |
Prior Term1: | 1961 - 1964 |
Office2: | Minister of Ministry of Mines and Energy |
Term2: | 1 January 1962 - 31 December 1984 |
Birth Name: | Eliezer Batista da Silva |
Death Place: | Hospital Samaritano, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Children: | 7, including Eike |
Occupation: | Businessman, engineer, politician |
Alma Mater: | Federal University of Parana |
Birth Date: | 4 May 1924 |
Birth Place: | Nova Era, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Spouse: |
Eliezer Batista da Silva (pronounced as /pt/; 4 May 1924 – 18 June 2018) was a Brazilian businessman, engineer and politician. In 1979, he was appointed president of Vale do Rio Doce, a multinational metals and mining corporation headquartered in Brazil, and within six years, increased the company's annual profits from $36 million to $920 million.[1] Today, Vale S.A. is the largest producer of iron ore and nickel worldwide.
He was the father of former billionaire Eike Batista, once the richest man in the world.[2] [3] Batista served as Minister to the Ministry of Mines and Energy from 1962 to 1984.
Batista was born 4 May 1924 in Nova Era, Minas Gerais to Jose Batista da Silva and Maria da Natividade Pereira, both of whom were of Portuguese descent. He received a degree in civil engineering from the Federal University of Parana in 1948.[4]
Batista was married to Jutta Fuhrken, a native of Hamburg, Germany, with whom he had seven children, including Eike Batista. In 2009, he divorced her and subsequently remarried to Inguelore Scheunemann, a dentist and former professor at the Federal University of Pelotas, also of German origin.
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