This Brazilian Jew is Helping Keep Inflation Down

RIO DE JANEIRO ( JTA ) — Brazil’s Central Bank president, an Israeli native, was named central banker of the year by a British magazine. Ilan Goldfajn, who was born in Haifa and raised in Rio de Janeiro, was selected by The Banker magazine due to his successful performance taming Latin America’s largest nation’s annual inflation. Since Goldfaj was named Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil last may, inflation dipped to 2.95 percent in 2017, the lowest in nearly 20 years, reported O Globo newspaper. “This is far from an easy accomplishment in a country that has struggled with inflation rising at double digits in the recent past,” wrote the magazine, which is part of the Financial Times group. Goldfajn, 51, an economist, has a career in both the public and private sectors. He served as chi