Carlos Ghosn… A Lebanese businessman who straightened up Nissan and decreased its debts... Thanks to him, this company was able to see the light once again in less than three years. According to many magazines (Financial Times, Fortune), Ghosn, the “Cost Killer”, is one of the ten strongest leaders on the planet….How did this man build his career?
On March 9, 1953, Carlos Ghosn was born in Porto Velho, Brazil, where his grandfather had emigrated when he was young. Originally from a Lebanese family, he came to Lebanon with his mother at the age of six and continued his studies with the Jesuits. After the secondary studies, he headed to France at the age of 17 and entered the Polytechnic School, then the Mines of Paris. Ghosn was good at five languages that he had heard and learned since his childhood (Arabic, French, English, Portuguese, and Spanish).