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Viatcheslav Kantor
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Fertilizer, real estate
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Residence
- Herzliya
- Education
- Moscow Aviation University (Ph.D)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 5
Assets
- Acron JSC34,857,000 shares @ --AKRN-RU
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.
About
Kantor founded the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation, a non-governmental organization that fights xenophobia, extremism and anti-Semitism.