Reply To: Who is Rav Shlomo Kanievsky? Is he being groomed to be the next Godol HaDor?

I will assume he is a tremendous gaon and tzadik., However, you are hearing of him because there is a need to fundraise, andit has become fashionable in these times to use gedolim as marketing props. If his last name would be Katz or Joseph and not Kanievsky, they wouldnt be using him.