Jorge Ramirez

Mr. Jorge Ramirez focuses on labor and government strategies and initiatives and serves on the ESG Committee and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee at GCM Grosvenor.
He 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.
In his role as president of the CFL, he served on executive and advisory boards for labor, civic, and community organizations across the City of Chicago and around the country.
He served as an officer of the CFL since July 2006 and was elected the CFL’s first Latino president in July 2010.
Mr. Ramirez is also a former vice president of the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO, helping to guide the daily work of the national federation.
He 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.