Michel Doukeris (born 1973) is a Brazilian businessman, and the CEO of

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, the world's largest beer company. Doukeris was born in

Lages Lages is a Brazilian municipality located in the central part of the state of Santa Catarina, in the region known in Portuguese as "Planalto Serrano". It is located in the mountain region of the state and is the largest municipality of it. It i ...

, Brazil, in 1973. He earned a degree in chemical engineering from

Federal University of Santa Catarina The Federal University of Santa Catarina ( pt, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC) is a public university in Florianópolis, the capital city of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil. Considered one of the leading universities in Brazil ...

, and a master's degree from

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. He has attended postgraduate programmes at the

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and

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in the US. Doukeris joined AB InBev in 1996 and worked in Latin America before he led its China and Asia Pacific operations for seven years. In 2016 became global chief sales officer, based in the US. In January 2018, he became the leader of

Anheuser-Busch Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC is an American brewing company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 2008, it has been wholly owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (AB InBev), now the world's largest brewing company, which owns multiple glo ...

and AB InBev's North American business. In July 2021, Doukeris succeeded Carlos Brito, who had been CEO of AB InBev for 15 years.https://www.ab-inbev.com/content/dam/abinbev/news-media/press-releases/2021/04/ABI_CEO_050621_EN.pdf

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