Biography

Jeffrey A. Joerres is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ManpowerGroup. Having joined the organization in 1993, Joerres served as Vice President of Marketing and Senior Vice President of European Operations and Global Account Management. In 1999, he was named CEO, and in 2001, Chairman of the Board.

Joerres has led a transformation of ManpowerGroup’s business strategy, adding new business lines that have expanded the company’s ability to help clients and candidates win in the changing world of work.

Under Joerres’ tenure, ManpowerGroup has experienced rapid growth, expanding the footprint of the organization to 3,500 offices across 80 countries and territories.

ManpowerGroup has climbed the ranks of the Fortune 500 American companies list, moving from 183 to 140 in 2013. Also, for the second consecutive year, ManpowerGroup was the only company in the industry to be named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. In 2011, Joerres received the inaugural Corporate Responsibility Lifetime Achievement Award for significant accomplishments made throughout his career in corporate social responsibility.

In 2012, Joerres was asked to co-chair the B20 Task Force on Employment, beginning with chairing a robust track of discussions at the 2012 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting and culminating, after months of collaboration with the private and public sectors, in delivering recommendations for focused actions to inspire sustainable employment creation at the G20 Summit in Mexico. Joerres also co-chaired the World Economic Forum on Latin America in April 2012, leading discussions on the region’s role in bolstering the global economy.

In addition to the ManpowerGroup board, Joerres has been designated Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago board of directors for 2013, serves on the boards of Johnson Controls, the US Council for International Business (USCIB), and the Committee for Economic Development (CED), and is co-chair of the Future Workforce Committee of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. Joerres has a bachelor's degree from Marquette University’s College of Business Administration.

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