Native name Бронштейн Александр Михайлович Born 15 June 1954 (age 62) ( 1954-06-15 ) Leningrad, USSR Occupation Businessman, Philanthropist | ||
Alexander Bronstein (Russian: Бронштейн Александр Михайлович; born June 15, 1954 in Leningrad, USSR) is an entrepreneur and billionaire currently living in Tallinn, Estonia. He is an Estonian citizen. Bronstein is well known in Jewish circles and is vice president of the Eurasian Jewish congress. A keen philanthropist, he sponsored the building of the first synagogue and community centre in Estonia.
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Biography
Son of academic and World War II veteran ru:Бронштейн, Михаил Лазаревич (Mikhail Bronstein). Alexander Bronstein was born in 1954 in Leningrad. Anti-semitism drove the family to Tallinn, Estonia in 1956. In 1976 Bronstein graduated from Tartu State University with a degree in Applied Mathematics, gaining a PhD in 1981. He started working entrepreneurially in the nonferrous-metal industry in the late 1980s. He held a number of key posts within the metalworking business before becoming a co-founder of Solway Investment Group, managing assets in Central, Eastern Europe, South America and South-Eastern Asia. According to Finance magazine, Bronstein's net worth was USD 150 million in 2007.
Career
Public work
Recognition
2007: awarded an Order of the White Star by the Estonian government.
Charity
Alexander Bronstein has played an active role in Jewish community life in Estonia since 2004. He funded the construction of the first Estonian synagogue and Jewish community centre (2005-7) to replace the building destroyed during World War II. The synagogue was named Beit Bela " in honour of Bronstein's mother. In 2006, Bronstein was one of the six sponsors who pledged support for Israeli orphans whose parents were killed by Hamas troops. He has supported the "Peres Centre" in Jaffa and the President's Conference in Jerusalem since 2008. In 2006 he organized and sponsored the European Israeli Friends forum, which brought together more than 500 members of the European Parliament in Jerusalem.
Academic work
"Ecologization of the economy: methods of regional management", Nauka Publishing House, 1990, Moscow