Mr. Jorge Ramirez

Jorge began his service as a member of the USML Board of Advisors in July 2021. A managing director at GCM Grosvenor, his work focuses on labor strategies and initiatives. Jorge is the former president of the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL), the third largest central labor council of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), representing 300 unions and a half million working people across the Chicagoland area. He served as an officer of the CFL from July 2006 and was elected the CFL’s first Latino president in July 2010. Jorge graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a double major in marketing and computer information systems and he obtained his Juris Doctor from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.