About
Dan Gertler is an Israeli philanthropist and businessman, grandson of Moshe Schnitzer, the founder of the Israeli Diamond Exchange.
His career began in almost three decades ago, in 1994, in the rough diamond trade in Africa and Europe.
Dan’s first big break came in 2000, when he made an investment of $20 million to secure the rights to purchase and export all artisanal diamonds out of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for an 18-month period. This began a long history of investing in the DRC, which has included dozens of transactions, with both state-owned and private institutions.
Dan Gertler’s trusts have invested in the DRC predominantly in the resources sector, and attracted 10 billions in inward investment into the country at a time it was seeking to recover from a brutal civil war.
He was instrumental in helping to generate jobs, investment in infrastructure and economic growth to the country, so vital to the DRC in the early 2000s.
Dan is a deeply religious and private individual. He has remained committed to promoting the human rights of the Congolese people and, through his trusts, has invested considerable sums in philanthropic activities both in the DRC, his native Israel and elsewhere. He played a vital role in helping to bring about peace in the DRC, torn apart by decades of brutal civil war.
Dan Gertler has a deep love for the DRC and its people, and an approach to business heavily influenced by his religious conviction.
”Dan Gertler, through his actions, saved the lives of Congolese. He helped stop a war in which DRC lost 6 million people. Through his actions, the war ended ”Read full Biography
Barnabe Kikaya Karubi
