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.
