- Source of Wealth: Business (Glencore)
- Age: 63
- Birth Place: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Marital Status: Married (Elana Glasenberg)
- Full Name: Ivan Glasenberg
- Nationality: Australian, South African and Israeli
- Date of Birth: 7 January 1957
- Ethnicity: Lithuanian, South African and Ashkenazi Jewish
- Occupation: Retired Chief Executive Officer of Glencore
- Education: University of the Witwatersrand and University of Southern California
- Children: 2
The retired CEO of Glencore, one of the world’s largest commodity trading companies, Ivan Glasenberg has an estimated net worth of $5.4 billion.
Glasenberg was the chief executive officer of the world’s biggest commodities trader called Glencore. The Baar, Switzerland-based company started trading in London in 2011 and acquired a competitor mine operator Xstrata for $29 billion in 2013. Glencore employs around 146,000 people with assets of $136 billion in the year 2017. Glasenberg eventually got listed in Forbes because of a successful public offering in May 2011. He has vowed that he will not sell shares in the company while he works there. Glasenberg was born in South Africa in January 1957. Glasenberg eventually became a champion race-walker for both Israel and South Africa.