Efraín Goldenberg Schreiber, or "Efraím," served as Peru's finance minister, foreign relations minister, and prime minister in the 1990s.
Goldenberg was born on December 29, 1929, in Lima, Peru, to Jewish Romanian immigrants. He grew up in Talara, and attended the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
On February 17, 1994, he was sworn in as Prime Minister of Peru by then President Alberto Fujimori, a position that he held until 1995. He was Peru's foreign relations minister prior to this office (August 28, 1993–95).[1][2][3]
On October 10, 1999, he became Peru's Finance Minister.[4]
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.