He has since been an advisor to the government of Brazil under Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff.

[2] Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1936.

[6] As a member of the Dilma Rousseff government, he has advocated the reduction in the number of ministries, which he considered to be excessive.

[9] His son André Bier Gerdau Johannpeter won a bronze medal in the competition of show jumping (team).

[4] Gerdau is also an aficionado of surfing, a sport he practiced in Rio Grande do Sul from the early 1960s.