Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor
| Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor Вячеслав Моше Кантор |
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Kantor in June 2009, at the opening of the Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery Exhibition My Homeland is Within My Soul: Art Without Borders at the Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
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September 8, 1953 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russia |
| Alma mater | Moscow Aviation Institute |
| Occupation | philanthropist |
| Home town | Moscow |
| Net worth |
 $2.7 billion |
| Spouse(s) | Anna Kantor |
| Children | 4 sons and 1 daughter |
| Website | http://www.moshekantor.com |
Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (Russian: Вячеслав Моше Кантор, born on September 8, 1953 in Moscow) is an international public figure, a Jewish leader, businessman, peace activist and philanthropist, who actively participates in the promotion of tolerance and reconciliation in the modern world. He is also engaged in discussing and elaborating ways to stop nuclear proliferation and prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Kantor is President of the European Jewish Congress, President of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR), President of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation (WHF), Chairman of the European Jewish Fund (EJF), and Chairman of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Policy Council. In 2016, Forbes estimated Kantor's net worth at US$2.7 billion, making him the 33rd richest person in Russia and the 688th richest person in the world.
Kantor was born and spent his early years in Moscow, and obtained a degree from the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) in 1976 and did research for NPO Spektr at MAI. In 1981, he completed his PhD in Spacecraft Automatic Control Systems.
Kantor heads the publicly traded Acron Group, one of the leading mineral fertilizer producers and distributors in the world. Today, Acron is a large group of companies producing over 40 chemical products with annual output exceeding 4.1 million tonnes. In 2016, Forbes estimated Kantor's net worth at US$2.7 billion, making him the 33rd richest person in Russia and the 688th richest person in the world.
In 1989-1993 Kantor was Director General of the joint venture Intelmas (intellectual materials and systems). Under his leadership, one of the first computer networks was introduced and installed in Russia, including at branches of the Academy of Sciences.
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