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Anna Breman

Anna Breman (born 1976) is a Swedish banker and economist. Anna Breman took up the position of governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand on 1 December 2025. Her term of appointment to the RBNZ runs from 1 December 2025 to 30 November 2030. She was formerly the first deputy governor of the Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden.

Banking

Burra Venkatappaiah

Burra Venkatappaiah was an Indian banker and was the Chairman of State Bank of India from March 1962 until February 1965.

Banking

Charles Soludo

Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo ( ; born 28 July 1960) is a Nigerian politician, banker, and economist who has served as the governor of Anambra State since March 2022. He is a former governor and chairman of the board of directors of the Central Bank of Nigeria, from 2004 to 2009.

Finance

Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt

The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt (CRND) is a statutory body of the UK Government, whose main function is the investment and management of government funds. The current Comptroller General is Paul Canty.

Banking

Funmilayo Olayinka

Olufunmilayo Adunni Olayinka (née Famuagun; 20 June 1960 – 6 April 2013),

Fiat currencies

Lars E. O. Svensson

Lars Erik Oscar Svensson, is a Swedish economist. He was on the faculty of Princeton University 2001–2009. Since June 2014, he is Affiliated Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. Since 2009 he is Affiliated Professor at Stockholm University. He has published significant research in macroeconomics, especially monetary economics, international trade and general equilibrium theory

Banking

Maxwell Opoku-Afari

Maxwell Opoku-Afari is a Ghanaian economist and currently the First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana. He was appointed to this position on August 7, 2017.

Banking

Michael Patra

Michael Debabrata Patra (born 29 September 1960) is an Indian economist and central banker who served as the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2020 to 2025. As a central banker he has spent most of his career at RBI.

Banking

Obadiah Mailafia

Obadiah Mailafia (24 December 1956 – 19 September 2021) was a Nigerian development economist and the 2019 Nigeria Presidential election Candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC). He was a former official of the African Development Bank Group and one-time Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). He was also the Chief of Staff of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group o

Banking

Prudential Regulation Authority

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is a United Kingdom financial services regulatory body, formed as one of the successors to the Financial Services Authority (FSA). The authority is responsible for the prudential regulation and supervision of banks, building societies, credit unions, insurers and major investment firms. It sets standards and supervises financial institutions at t

Finance

Rivers State Internal Revenue Service

The Rivers State Internal Revenue Service (RIRS) was formed in 1993 under the Board of Internal Revenue Law 1993 (No. 3). It is a government agency entrusted to assess, collect and account for all taxes, fees and levies in Rivers State, Nigeria. It is involved in the formulation of tax policy as well as the supervision of revenue collection due to the state. Its headquarters is at Plot

Banking

Shyamala Gopinath

Shyamala Gopinath (born 20 June 1949) is an Indian banker and former chairperson of HDFC Bank. She previously served as a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), for seven years.

Banking

Sima Kamil

Sima Kamil is a Pakistani banker who has served as the deputy governor of State Bank of Pakistan since August 2020. Previously, she served as the president and chief executive officer of United Bank Limited from June 2017 to June 2020, the first woman to lead a major Pakistani bank.

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Uthum Herat

Amal Uthum Herat (15 September 1957 – 23 October 2009) born in Colombo, Sri Lanka was Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund.