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Viatcheslav Kantor

Net worth $12.0B

Fertilizer, real estate · Russia

Born
Sep 08, 1953
Age
72
Source
Fertilizer, real estate
Residence
Herzliya
Citizenship
Russia
Marital status
Married
Children
5
Education
Ph.D, Moscow Aviation University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Viatcheslav Kantor is a large shareholder of publicly traded Acron, one of Russia's largest fertilizer producers.
  • Kantor graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute and set up a computer trading company in the late 1980s.
  • He later received a contract to carry out an environmental impact assessment at the Azot chemical plant in Novgorod.
  • That plant was later renamed Acron and privatized in 1993.
  • Kantor stepped down as chair of the European Jewish Congress in 2022 after 15 years in the role.
  • Kantor is a citizen of Russia, the U.K. and Israel.
  • Kantor founded the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation, a non-governmental organization that fights xenophobia, extremism and anti-Semitism.

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