UK: Fernando Gonzalez has been appointed as the president of the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA). He has been the association’s vice-president since 2018 and succeeds outgoing president Jan Jenisch.

Gonzalez has called for industry and governments around the world to establish a "robust regulatory framework" that can further accelerate the cement and concrete sector's decarbonisation efforts. He said "It is a great honour to be president of the GCCA - cement and concrete are the world's essential building materials. As an industry, we've gone beyond the commitment phase to taking decisive action today to reduce our CO₂ emissions."

Gonzalez is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Cemex. He has worked for the company since 1998. On the operational side, he has led various regions of Cemex, including Europe, Asia and South Central America and the Caribbean, and has held corporate positions in strategy, planning, business development and human resources. He was appointed Executive Vice President of Planning and Development in 2009, chief financial officer in 2011, and has been the company's CEO since 2014.

Azerbaijan: Norm has appointed Ülkü Özcan and Stephan Sollberger to its board of directors, according to the Trend News Agency.

Ülkü Özcan holds over 20 years of experience in the cement industry. She has held various positions in Cimsa and held the position of its chief executive officer from 2018 to 2020. Since then she has been working in the energy & telecommunication cable business in Türkiye. Additionally, she has held various roles at Afyon Cement, including a member of the board of directors, a representative for the Global Cement and Concrete Association and a member in the Audit Committee of the Cement Manufacturers Association of Türkiye. She has also worked for Lafarge Turkey previously. Özcan is a business graduate from Marmara University and has completed the Advanced Industrial Marketing and Strategy Program at INSEAD Business School in Paris.

Stephan Sollberger holds over 30 years of experience in cement and concrete manufacturing companies. From 1992 to 2001, he occupied various positions at Holderbank Cement und Beton. Until 2006, he worked as the manager of the technical centre of Holcim Switzerland and later as a plant director, also in Switzerland. He also holds managerial experience at Jura Group. Since 2020, he has held the role of Chief Operations Director at Landqart. Sollberger is a graduate from the University of Applied Sciences Zurich and the University of Applied Sciences Bern.

Zimbabwe: PPC Zimbabwe has appointed Albert Sigei as its managing director from the start of 2024. He succeeds Kelibone Masiyane in the post, according to the Chronicle newspaper. Masiyane was appointed as the managing director of the subsidiary of South-Africa based PPC in 2016, having joined the company in 1994 as a trainee electrical engineer at the Colleen Bawn Plant.

Sigei is currently PPC’s Head of Strategic Initiatives, a post he has held since February 2023. Before this he was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Cimerwa PPC in Rwanda from 2000. He worked for over 17 years for LafargeHolcim and its subsidiaries becoming the CEO of LafargeHolcim Malawi from 2016 to 2019 and the chief operations officer of the East African Portland Cement Company (EAPCC) in Kenya in 2015. Earlier in his career he worked for PriceWaterhousCoopers. A graduate in mechanical engineering from the University of Nairobi, Sigei holds a number of qualifications in accountancy and business.

China: Anhui Conch has nominated He Chengfa as the chair of its Supervisory Committee in anticipation of the retirement of Wu Xiaoming. His nomination will be submitted to the company’s shareholders at a future extraordinary general meeting. The Supervisory Committee is the monitoring body of the company, accountable to the shareholders at its general meetings.

He Chengfa, aged 57 years, is a senior engineer. He graduated from Wuhan Industrial University specialising in mechanical design and manufacturing and joined Anhui Conch in 1990. Notable positions he has held include that of deputy engineer-in-chief of the Ningguo cement plant, head of the equipment department and deputy general manager of the company. He is currently a deputy general manager, executive deputy officer of the technology centre of Anhui Conch Holdings Company, a director and executive deputy general manager of Santan (Anhui) Institute of Science and Technology and chair of the board of directors of Anhui Conch Construction Materials Design Institute.