Viatcheslav Kantor
Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor is an international public figure, a Jewish leader, businessman, peace activist, international philanthropist and scientist, who actively participates in the promotion of tolerance and reconciliation in the modern world.
- 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.
- As chair of the European Jewish Congress, he is committed to promoting tolerance and reconciliation in Europe.
- Kantor is a citizen of Russia, the U.K. and Israel.
