Vyacheslav Moshe Cantor
Vyacheslav Moshe Kantor ( Russian Вячеслав Моше Кантор ; born September 8, 1953 in Moscow ) is a Russian entrepreneur , billionaire and philanthropist . Since 2007 he has been President of the European Jewish Congress .
Life
Kantor was born in 1953 as the son of a Red Army soldier and later a branch manager. He studied at the Moscow State Aviation Institute ( Ph.D. 1981). After that he worked as a scientist and businessman. Since 1993 he has headed the Acron agrochemical group. From 1996 to 2000 he was also an advisor to the chairman of the Federation Council , the upper house of the parliamentary chambers of Russia. The Forbes Magazine lists him in his billionaire ranking 42nd position in Russia (as of March 2013).
From 2005 to 2009 he was President of the Russian Jewish Congress and in 2007 he became President of the European Jewish Congress, in 2008 and 2012 he was re-elected for this office. He is active internationally as a philanthropist and was one of the founding members of the World Holocaust Forum (WHF) foundation and the European Jewish Fund . Kantor is one of the major donors to the Holocaust History Museum of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. He established a Center for European Jewish Cultural Studies at Tel Aviv University . According to the Israeli daily newspaper The Jerusalem Post (2013), he is one of the world's most influential Jewish personalities.
In 2007 he was also elected President of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe and one year later founded the non-governmental organization European Council for Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR). He is married and has four sons and a daughter.
Awards
- 1998: Order of Friendship , Russia
- 2004: Honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University
- 2005: Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
- 2007: Order of Grand Duke Jaroslav the Wise, fifth class, Ukraine
- 2009: Order of the Leopold , Belgium
- 2011: Medal for Merit in the Field of Tolerance, Poland
- 2012: Order of the Legion of Honor , France
- 2012: European Jewish Leadership Award from the European Council of Jewish Communities
- 2013: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 2014: Grand Cross from the Romanian State Order for Merit , Romania
- 2014: Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honor , France
literature
- Ute Weinmann: Man from Moscow. The new EJC President Mosche Kantor has been in close contact with the Kremlin for years . In: Jüdische Allgemeine , July 5, 2007.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Vyacheslav Kantor , Forbes Magazine, accessed December 16, 2013.
- ^ Donors , Holocaust History Museum, accessed December 16, 2013.
- ↑ Top 50 most influential Jews 2013: Places 11-20 . In: The Jerusalem Post , May 14, 2013.
- ^ Website Vyacheslav Moshe Kantor - biography; Retrieved June 4, 2018 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cantor, Vyacheslav Moshe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Кантор, Вячеслав Моше (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |