Efraín Goldenberg Schreiber, or "Efraím," served as Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

's finance minister, foreign relations minister, and prime minister in the 1990s.

Early life

Efraín Goldenberg was born on December 29, 1929, in Lima

Lima

Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

, Peru, to Russian Jewish immigrants to Peru. He grew up in Talar, the only Jewish student in his school, and studied in Colegio San Andrés

San Andrés (Colegio)

The Colegio San Andrés was founded in 1917 as the Anglo-Peruvian School by a Scottish missionary, John A. Mackay, who was later responsible for the YMCA in Latin America and president of Princeton Theological Seminary....

 (formerly named as Anglo-Peruvian School).http://books.google.com/books?id=RdT1r60f-eAC&pg=PA433&dq=%22Efrain+Goldenberg%22&lr=lang_en&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=100&as_brr=3&ei=C2xdS8ySKpLGywSZrMSWCA&cd=5#v=onepage&q=%22Efrain%20Goldenberg%22&f=false

He studied humanities and law at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima from 1946 to 1952. He then entered the family export business. He was on the board of the Lima Jewish Community Association.http://books.google.com/books?id=RdT1r60f-eAC&pg=PA433&dq=%22Efrain+Goldenberg%22&lr=lang_en&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=100&as_brr=3&ei=C2xdS8ySKpLGywSZrMSWCA&cd=5#v=onepage&q=%22Efrain%20Goldenberg%22&f=false

Political career

On February 17, 1994, he was sworn in as Prime Minister of Peru by then President Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Fujimori Fujimori served as President of Peru from 28 July 1990 to 17 November 2000. A controversial figure, Fujimori has been credited with the creation of Fujimorism, uprooting terrorism in Peru and restoring its macroeconomic stability, though his methods have drawn charges of...

, a position that he held until 1995. He was Peru's foreign relations minister prior to this office (August 28, 1993-95).http://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C&pg=PA3386&dq=%22Efrain+Goldenberg%22&lr=lang_en&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=100&as_brr=3&ei=C2xdS8ySKpLGywSZrMSWCA&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22Efrain%20Goldenberg%22&f=falsehttp://books.google.com/books?id=llLzf4hbdAAC&pg=PA62&dq=%22Efrain+Goldenberg%22&lr=lang_en&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=100&as_brr=3&ei=C2xdS8ySKpLGywSZrMSWCA&cd=4#v=onepage&q=%22Efrain%20Goldenberg%22&f=falsehttp://books.google.com/books?id=eC7D_m1KTV4C&pg=PA147&dq=%22Efrain+Goldenberg%22&lr=lang_en&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=100&as_brr=3&ei=C2xdS8ySKpLGywSZrMSWCA&cd=6#v=onepage&q=%22Efrain%20Goldenberg%22&f=false

On October 10, 1999, he became Peru's Finance Minister.http://books.google.com/books?id=MhQ_4EOtGp4C&pg=PA175&dq=%22Efrain+Goldenberg%22&lr=lang_en&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=100&as_brr=3&ei=C2xdS8ySKpLGywSZrMSWCA&cd=3#v=onepage&q=%22Efrain%20Goldenberg%22&f=false

Business career

He has had a prominent role in the business community as chairperson of the National Fisheries Society and director of the Fund for the Promoting of Exports.