Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (Russian: Вячеслав Моше Кантор,[1] born 8 September 1953) is an Israeli-British-Russian businessman and oligarch.
Kantor directly or through trusted persons controls the Acron Group,[4] one of the leading mineral fertilizer producers and distributors in the world.
[10] In 2014 he allocated at least two million dollars in aid to the voluntary Jewish battalion Matilan, formed to fight the separatists of Donbass backed by the Putin regime.
[11][12] Kantor was sanctioned by association by the British government in March 2022 in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
[22] In 2010, he established the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University.
[23][24] In 2019, Yad Vashem nominated Moshe Kantor as Chancellor of the Council, and before it he served as its Member of Directorate since 2010.
The conference was attended by over 50 renowned experts from 14 countries, including Sergey Kirienko, Director General of the Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Nikolay Laverov, Academician and Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), William Perry, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense, and Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and former Director General of the IAEA.
[32] Kantor was a trustee of the Anna Freud Centre (London, UK), but was removed from this position after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.
[36] Kantor has been a benefactor of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation since 2013, in which capacity he has facilitated various projects.