{{Short description|Peruvian politician (1929–2025)}} {{family name hatnote|Goldenberg|Schreiber|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Efraín Goldenberg | image = | office = [[Prime Minister of Peru]] | term_start = 17 February 1994 | term_end = 28 July 1995 | president = [[Alberto Fujimori]] | predecessor = [[Alfonso Bustamante|Alfonso Bustamante y Bustamante]] | successor = [[Dante Córdova|Dante Córdova Blanco]] | office2 = [[Ministry of Economy and Finance (Peru)|Minister of Economy and Finance]] | term_start2 = 15 October 1999 | term_end2 = 28 July 2000 | president2 = Alberto Fujimori | predecessor2 = [[Victor Joy Way]] | successor2 = [[Carlos Boloña Behr]] | office3 = [[Ministry of Foreign Relations of Peru|Minister of Foreign Relations]] | term_start3 = 27 August 1993 | term_end3 = 28 July 1995 | president3 = Alberto Fujimori | predecessor3 = [[Óscar de la Puente Raygada]] | successor3 = [[Francisco Tudela]] | birth_name = Efraín Goldenberg Schreiber | birth_date = {{birth date|1929|12|28|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Lima]], [[Perù]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|12|10|1929|12|28|df=y}}{{fact|date=March 2026}} | death_place = Lima, Perù | party = [[Independent politician|Independent]] <br/>[[Cambio 90]] (non-affiliated member) | profession = Politician | spouse = Irene Pravatiner | children = | alma_mater = [[National University of San Marcos]] }}
'''Efraín Goldenberg Schreiber''' (or '''Efraím'''; 28 December 1929 – 10{{fact|date=March 2026}} December 2025) was a Peruvian politician who served as [[Ministry of Economy and Finance (Peru)|finance and economy minister]], [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Peru)|foreign relations minister]], and [[Prime Minister of Peru|prime minister]] during the presidency of [[Alberto Fujimori]].<ref>Catherine M. Conaghan - Fujimori's Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere 2005 - - Page 97 "Cabinet president Efraín Goldenberg announced that both Attorney General Colán and JNE board member Manuel Catorca were en route to Huánuco to lead an investigation. Meanwhile, the police arrested twelve of the seventeen suspects ."</ref>
==Personal life== Goldenberg was born on 28 December 1929,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4XNtwLEbl7wC&q=efraín+goldenberg+28+december+1929 Profile of Efraín Goldenberg Schreiber]</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sR4Ch1dMe8IC&q=Efra%C3%ADn+Goldenberg+28.+XII.+1929&pg=PA622|title=The International Who's Who 2004|last=Publications|first=Europa|date=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-217-6|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5g4WAQAAIAAJ&q=Efra%C3%ADn+Goldenberg+1929|title=International Directory of Foreign Ministers, 1589-1989: Supplement, 1945-1995|last=Truhart|first=Peter|date=1996|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-598-11276-8|language=en}}</ref> in [[Lima]], Peru, to [[History of the Jews in Romania|Romanian-Jewish]] immigrants. He grew up in [[Talara]], and attended the [[National University of San Marcos|Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Frank|first=Ben G.|title=A Travel Guide to the Jewish Caribbean and Latin America|year=2010|publisher=Pelican Publishing|isbn=978-1-4556-1330-4|page=433}}</ref> Goldenberg died on 10 December 2025, at the age of 95.{{fact|date=March 2026}}
==Political career== On 17 February 1994, he was sworn in as [[Prime Minister of Peru]] by President [[Alberto Fujimori]], a position that he held until 1995. He was Peru's foreign relations minister prior to this office (28 August 1993 – 28 July 1995).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C&q=%22Efrain+Goldenberg%22&pg=PA3386|title=The Europa World Year: Kazakhstan - Zimbabwe|date=2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-85743-255-8|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=llLzf4hbdAAC&q=%22Efrain+Goldenberg%22&pg=PA62|title=The United States and Peru: Cooperation at a Cost|last1=McClintock|first1=Cynthia|last2=McClintock|first2=Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Cynthia|last3=Vallas|first3=Fabian|date=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-93463-3|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eC7D_m1KTV4C&q=%22Efrain+Goldenberg%22&pg=PA147|title=Peru's Relations with Pacific Asia: Democracy and Foreign Policy Under Alan Garcia, Alberto Fujimori, and Alejandro Toledo|last=Mann|first=Stefanie|date=2006|publisher=Lit|isbn=978-3-8258-8820-6|language=en}}</ref> On 15 October 1999, he became Peru's minister of economy and finance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mef.gob.pe/es/component/content/article?id=493:..|title=Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas - Histórico - Relación de Ministros|website=www.mef.gob.pe}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/intrenches00davi_0|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/intrenches00davi_0/page/175 175]|quote=Efrain Goldenberg.|title=In the Trenches: 2004-2005|last=Harris|first=David A.|date=2000|publisher=KTAV Publishing House, Inc.|isbn=978-0-88125-927-8|language=en}}</ref> He has had a role in the business community as chairperson of the National Fisheries Society and director of the Fund for the Promoting of Exports.
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