Salomón Lerner Ghitis

Salomón Lerner Ghitis, also known as Siomi Lerner (born 4 February 1946) is a Peruvian businessman and politician, who was the Prime Minister of Peru from 28 July to 10 December 2011 and leader of the political movement Citizens for Change (CxC). He was appointed prime minister following the 2011 general election which was won by Ollanta Humala. Lerner resigned on 10 December 2011.

Early life Salomón Lerner was born on 4 February 1946. Lerner and his sister are practising Catholics, while their older brother, Boris, is a practising Jew and a member of the city's Conservative Jewish congregation.

He studied at the Anglo-Peruvian School. From 1962 to 1967, he studied industrial engineering with focus on agribusiness at the National University of Engineering (UNI) in Lima. Later he attended post-gradual courses at the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico, in 1968, and at the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel, in 1989. As a student, he joined politics and became the chairman of the students' wing of the social-democratic APRA party.

Prime minister On 28 July 2011, newly elected president Ollanta Humala appointed Salomón Lerner to be President of the Council of Ministers of Peru. His government had congressional support of the Peru Wins and Possible Peru parliamentary groups.