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Beny Steinmetz (born 1956) is a Swiss resident with dual Israel-French nationality. He is a businessman and philanthropist. His family interests extend through trusts into natural resources, mining, power generation, real estate and investment-backed securities.

Biography
Beny Steinmetz was born in Netanya, Israel in 1956, the fourth child of Rubin Steinmetz. After completing national service in 1977, he worked as a diamond dealer in Antwerp, Belgium, before joining the family diamond business. Beny Steinmetz has developed and diversified his family's interests. Today they extend into diamond mining, ferro-nickel, oil, gas, power generation, real estate and financial investment. Beny Steinmetz acts in an advisory role to the board of directors.

He inherited the Geneva-based Steinmetz Diamond Group from his father. As the founder of the Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR), which is also based in Geneva, he now acts in an advisory role to the company's Board of Directors.

In December 2008, a three year exploration permit for Simandou Blocks 1 & 2, in The Republic of Guinea, was awarded to BSGR Guinea, after the government of Guinea, under its then president, General Lansana Conté, ordered that it be relinquished by its previous holder, the British-Australian multinational mining company Rio Tinto Group.

BSGR includes global natural resources businesses with operations in 12 countries. These include: Octea, a diamond mining operation in Sierra Leone, formerly operating as the joint venture Koidu Holdings, which has been a wholly owned BSGR company since 2007; Cunico, a ferronickel mining and processing business with operations in the Balkans and Central America, is controlled by BSGR and IMR, another investment firm. Other assets are involved with power generation, alternative energy and oil and gas extraction.

The U.S. Justice Department and the FBI have been investigating BSGR's acquisition of the rights to extract half of the iron ore deposits at Simandou, Guinea, due to concerns about corruption and bribery. These have been robustly contested by BSGR and Beny Steinmetz.

He is also an investor of Gabriel Resources Ltd.

The March 2013 issue of Forbes magazine estimated his personal wealth at US$4.1 billion. As of March 2013, he was the sixth richest person in Israel.

Steinmetz lives in Geneva, Switzerland. He is married with four children. Beny Steinmetz serves on the board and as Chairman of the Agnes and Beny Steinmetz Foundation, which specializes in and supports education and welfare, particularly in the early years, in Israel and internationally. It aims to reduce poverty and support education and inclusion through the development of schools, sports facilities and environmental uplift programmes for local communities. The Foundation also supports art and artists. Beny Steinmetz is on the board of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and was awarded an honorary degree of Honoris Causa from the Netanya Academic College in 2012. The Steinmetz business group also contributes to infrastructure and social uplift programmes for communities involved in its activities in Africa and the Balkans. These activities include road building, school building, health provision, sports facilities, water and sanitation.