Ferroglobe PLC

Stuart E. Eizenstat

Stuart E. Eizenstat was appointed to our Board of Directors as a Non-Executive Director on December 23, 2015. He was a member of the Company’s Corporate Governance Committee from January 1, 2018, until May 26, 2023, and served on our Nominations Committee from May 16, 2018, until May 26, 2023, on which date he was appointed as a member of the Compensation Committee.

Mr. Eizenstat is a Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C. and has headed its international public policy practice for many years after joining the firm in 2001. He has served as a member of the Advisory Boards of GML Ltd. from 2003 to 2023 and of the Office of Cherifien de Phosphates since 2010. He was a trustee of BlackRock Funds from 2001 until 2018.

Mr. Eizenstat was a member of Board of Directors of Globe Specialty Metals from 2008 until the closing of the Business Combination and Chair of its Nominating Committee. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Alcatel-Lucent from 2008 to 2016 and of United Parcel Service from 2005 to 2015. He has had an illustrious political, legal, and advisory career. His career includes serving as the Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Holocaust issues during the Clinton administration (1993 to 2001); Special Adviser on Holocaust issues to Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry (2009 to 2017); Special Adviser to Secretary of State Antony Blinken (2021 to 2025); and, since 2025, Special Adviser to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He was Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury from July 1999 to January 2001, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs from 1997 to 1999, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade from 1996 to 1997, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to 1996 and Chief Domestic Policy Advisor in the White House to President Carter from 1977 to 1981. In 2024, he was chosen to deliver a eulogy for President Carter at the National Memorial Service in the National Cathedral. He served on the Defense Policy Board advising the Secretary of Defense in the Obama administration from 2014 to 2017. He currently serves as Chairman of the Council of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, appointed by President Biden.

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He is the author of “Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II”; “The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and its Relationship with the United States”, “President Carter: The White House Years”, and “The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World”. He has written scores of articles on a wide range of economic and foreign policy issues in leading publications, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, Foreign Affairs magazine, Foreign Policy magazine. He has appeared frequently on a wide-range of television programs on Fox, CNN, and MSNBC.

Mr. Eizenstat holds a B.A. in Political Science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and eight honorary doctorate degrees from colleges and universities, high honors from the governments of the United States, France (Two Legions of Honor), Germany, Austrian, Belgium, and Israel, and more than 80 awards from various other organizations.