Name
Ivan Glasenberg
Ivan Glasenberg
Ruschlikon, Switzerland
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Witwatersrand | Master of Business Administration, Marshall School of Business
Switzerland
mining, Self Made
$4,700,000,000
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#343 Billionaires 2019
#5 Australia's 50 Richest 2015
Ivan Glasenberg holds the largest individual stake in Glencore, the world's biggest commodity trader. Glasenberg has been CEO of Glencore since 2002 and announced in December 2018 that he plans to find a successor by the time he is 65.After earning his MBA from the USC, Glasenberg started working as a marketer in the coal department of Marc Rich & Co. in his native South Africa.The company became Glencore in 1994 and went public in 2011.
Glasenberg is a former South African race-walking champion.Glencore's founder Marc Rich, who fled the U.S. in 1983 after being indicted for multiple crimes including tax evasion, was pardoned by Bill Clinton in 2001.
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