Traci Forrrester
Executive Vice President, Environmental & Sustainability 
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. 

Traci Forrester is executive vice president, environmental and sustainability of Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. She is responsible for the environmental affairs and sustainability functions. Previously, Forrester was executive vice president, business development, whereby she was responsible for developing emerging business opportunities supporting Cleveland-Cliffs’ U.S. domestic market. She began her career at Cleveland-Cliffs in 2004 within the company’s legal department. She was vice president, deputy general counsel and assistant secretary from 2018 to 2019. She was responsible for the company’s compliance with securities laws and financial reporting, execution of strategic transactions and corporate governance matters, including working with the board of directors and its committees. She also coordinated legal services and counsel for the company. Since joining Cliffs as corporate attorney, Forrester has served in various senior management positions within the company’s legal department. She was promoted to group counsel – Asia Pacific Operations in 2011 and oversaw and directed legal services for that business unit in Australia. She also held the role of assistant general counsel – Corporate Affairs and International Operations. Before her tenure with Cliffs, she held an in-house legal counsel position at ABB Inc., a multinational industrial process automation company, as a senior attorney. 

Forrester earned her J.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University, and her B.A. degree in philosophy from Miami University. She is a board member of the Cleveland Play House and Friends of Breakthrough Schools.