Central Bank Governors

    Following is a list of chief executives of 200 national central banks and monetary authorities. In most cases, the chief executive is a governor but the function can also be held by a president or chairman.  
    Some countries join a regional central bank, such as the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) or the European Central Bank (ECB), and in these cases the name of the regional bank is listed instead of the national central bank.
    For members of BEAC, the name of the BEAC governor is listed, not the representatives from the member national central banks. For the other three regional central banks, the names listed are those of the national representatives in the regional body.
    (F) denotes a female chief executive. As of July 5, 2021, 15 central banks were headed by women, either on an interim or full-time basis: Aruba, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, European Central Bank, Lesotho, Macedonia, Malaysia, Russia, Samoa, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles and Vietnam.
     
                               (Updated Sept. 14, 2021 with new Sri Lanka governor)

COUNTRY CENTRAL BANK NAME GOVERNOR/PRESIDENT AFGHANISTAN 3) Da Afghanistan Bank  Mohammad Idris ALBANIA Bank of Albania Gent Sejko  ALGERIA Bank of Algeria Rosthom Fadli ANGOLA National Bank of Angola Jose Lima Massano ARGENTINA  Central Bank of the Argentine Rep. Miguel Pesce  ANGUILLA  Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Victor Banks ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Gaston Browne ARMENIA Central Bank of Armenia Martin Galstyan ARUBA Central Bank of Aruba Jeanette R. Semeleer (F) AUSTRALIA Reserve Bank of Australia Philip Lowe AUSTRIA  European Central Bank  Robert Holzmann  AZERBAIJAN Central Bank of the Rep. of Azerbaijan Ellman Siraj oglu Rustamov BAHAMAS Central Bank of the Bahamas John A. Rolle BAHRAIN Central Bank of Bahrain Rasheed Mohammed Al-Maraj BANGLADESH Bangladesh Bank  Fazle Kabir BARBADOS Central Bank of Barbados Cleviston Haynes  BELARUS National Bank of Rep. of Belarus Pavel Kallaur BELGIUM European Central Bank  Pierre Wunsch BELIZE  Central Bank of Belize Gustavo Manuel Vasquez BENIN  Central Bank of West African States Evariste Sebastian Bonou BERMUDA Bermuda Monetary Authority Jeremy Cox (chief executive) BHUTAN Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan Daw Tenzin BOLIVIA Central Bank of Bolivia Pablo Ramos Sanchez  BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA Central Bank of Bosnia & Herzegovina Senad Softic BOTSWANA Bank of Botswana Moses Dinekere Pelaelo BRAZIL Central Bank of Brazil Roberto Campos Neto  BRUNEI Monetary Authority of Brunei Darussalem Yang Mulia Awang Yusof bin Haji Abd Rahman BULGARIA Bulgarian National Bank  Dimitar Radev BURKINA FASO  Central Bank of West African States Charles Luanga Ki-Zerbo BURUNDI Bank of the Republic of Burundi Jean Ciza CAMBODIA National Bank of Cambodia Chea Chanto CAMEROON  Bank of Central African States Abbas Mahamat Tolli CANADA  Bank of Canada Tiff Macklem  CAYMAN ISLANDS Cayman Islands Monetary Authority Cindy Scotland (F) CAPE VERDE Bank of Cape Verde Joao Serra  CEN. AFRICAN REPUBLIC Bank of Central African States Abbas Mahamat Tolli CHAD Bank of Central African States Abbas Mahamat Tolli CHILE Central Bank of Chile Mario Marcel CHINA People's Bank of China Yi Gang COLOMBIA  Central Bank of Colombia Leonardo Villar  COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Roosevelt Skerrit COMOROS, UNION OF THE  Central Bank of Comoros Younoussa Imani REPUBLIC OF CONGO  Bank of Central African States Abbas Mahamat Tolli DEMOCRATIC REP. OF THE CONGO Central Bank of Congo Malangu Kabedi-Mbuyi (F) COSTA RICA Central Bank of Costa Rica Olivier Castro  CROATIA Croatian National Bank Boris Vujcic CUBA Central Bank of Cuba Irma Margarita Martinez Castrillon (F) CURACAO & ST. MAARTEN  Central Bank of Curacao and St. Maarten Richard A Doornbosch CYPRUS European Central Bank  Constantinos Herodotou CZECH REPUBLIC Czech National Bank Jiri Rusnok  DENMARK National Bank of Denmark Lars Rohde DJIBOUTI Central Bank of Djibouti Ahmed Osman Ali DOMINICAN REPL. Central Bank of the Dominican Rep. Hector Valdez Albizu EAST TIMOR (TIMOR-LESTE) Central Bank of Timor-Leste Abraao de Vasconselos ECUADOR Central Bank of Ecuador Veronica Artola Jarrin (F) EGYPT Central Bank of Egypt Tarek Amer  EL SALVADOR Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador Oscar Cabrera  EQUATORIAL GUINEA Bank of Central African States Abbas Mahamat Tolli ESTONIA  European Central Bank  Madis Mueller  ESWATINI  Central Bank of Eswatini  Majozi Sithole  ETHIOPIA National Bank of Ethiopia Yinager Dessie FIJI Reserve Bank of Fiji Ariff Ali  FINLAND European Central Bank  Olli Rehn  FRANCE European Central Bank  Francois Villeroy de Galhau  GABON Bank of Central African States Abbas Mahamat Tolli GAMBIA Central Bank of The Gambia Buah Saidy GEORGIA National Bank of Georgia Koba Gvenetadze GERMANY European Central Bank  Jens Weidmann GHANA Bank of Ghana Ernest Kwamina Yedu Addison GREECE European Central Bank  Yannis Stournaras  GRENADA Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Keith Mitchell GUATEMALA Bank of Guatemala Sergio Francisco Recinos Rivera GUINEA Central Bank of the Rep. of Guinea Lounceny Nabe GUINEA-BISSEAU Central Bank of West African States Joao Alaje Mamadu Fadia GUYANA Bank of Guyana Gobind Ganga HAITI Bank of the Republic of Haiti Jean Baden Dubois HONDURAS Central Bank of Honduras Wilfredo Cerrato Rodriguez HONG KONG  Hong Kong Monetary Authority  Eddie Yue HUNGARY Central Bank of Hungary Gyorgy Matolcsy ICELAND  Central Bank of Iceland Asgeir Jonsson  INDIA Reserve Bank of India Shaktikanta Das INDONESIA Bank Indonesia Perry Warjiyo IRAN  Central Bank of Islamic Rep. of Iran Akbar Komeijani IRAQ Central Bank of Iraq Mustafa Ghaleb IRELAND  European Central Bank  Gabriel Makhlouf  ISRAEL Bank of Israel Amir Yaron ITALY European Central Bank  Ignazio Visco IVORY COAST Central Bank of West African States Jean-Baptiste Aman JAMAICA  Bank of Jamaica Richard Owen Byles JAPAN Bank of Japan Haruhiko Kuroda JORDAN Central Bank of Jordan Ziad Fariz KAZAKHSTAN  National Bank of Kazakhstan Erbolat Dossaev  KENYA Central Bank of Kenya Patrick Ngugi Njoroge  KOSOVO Central Bank of the Republic of Kozovo Fehmi Mehmeti KUWAIT Central Bank of Kuwait Mohammad Yusef Al-Hashel KYRGYZSTAN National Bank of the Kyrgyz Repl. Abdygulov T. Meimanaliev  LATVIA  Bank of Latvia Martins Kazaks LAOS (Lao People's Dem. Repl.) Bank of the Lao P.D. R. Somphao Phaysith LEBANON Central Bank of Lebanon Riad T. Salameh LESOTHO Central Bank of Lesotho Retselisitsoe Matlanyane (F) LIBERIA  Central Bank of Liberia Jolue Aloysius Tarlue LIBYA Central Bank of Libya Mohamed Abdel-Salam Shukri LITHUANIA  European Central Bank  Gediminas Simkus LUXEMBOURG European Central Bank  Gaston Reinesch MACAO Monetary Authority of Macao Anselmo Teng MADAGASCAR Central Bank of Madagascar Rasolofondraibe Alain Herve MALAWI Reserve Bank of Malawi Wilson T. Banda  MALAYSIA Bank Negara Malaysia Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus (F) MALDIVES Maldives Monetary Authority Ahmed Naseer MALI Central Bank of West African States Konzo Traore MALTA  European Central Bank  Edward Scicluna MAURITANIA Central Bank of Mauritania Abdel Aziz Ould Dahi MAURITIUS  Central Bank of Mauritius Harvesh Kumar Seegolam MEXICO 2) Bank of Mexico Alejandro Diaz de Leon-Carrillo  MOLDOVA National Bank of Moldova Octavian Armasu MONGOLIA  Bank of Mongolia Byadran Lkhagvasuren MONTENEGRO Central Bank of Montenegro Milojica Dakic MONTSERRAT Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Donaldson Romeo MOROCCO Bank of Morocco Abdellatif Jouahri MOZAMBIQUE Bank of Mozambique Rogerio Lucas Zandamela MYANMAR Central Bank of Myanmar Than Nyein NAMIBIA Bank of Namibia Johannes Gawaxab NEPAL Nepal Rastra Bank Maha Prasad Adhikari NETHERLANDS European Central Bank  Klaas Knot NEW ZEALAND Reserve Bank of New Zealand Adrian Orr NICARAGUA Central Bank of Nicaragua Leonardo Ovidio Reyes Ramirez NIGER Central Bank of West African States Mahamadou Gado NIGERIA Central Bank of Nigeria Godwin Emefiele  NORTH KOREA (D. PEOPLE'S REP. OF) C.B. of the D. People's Rep. Of Korea Kim Chon-gyun NORTH MACEDONIA National Bank of the Rep. of Macedonia Anita Angelovska-Bezoska (F) NORWAY Norges Bank  Oeystein Olsen OMAN Central Bank of Oman Tahir bin Salim bin Abdullah Al Amri PAKISTAN State Bank of Pakistan Reza Baqir PALESTINE Palestine Monetary Authority Jihad Khalil Al-Wazir PAPUA NEW GUINEA Bank of Papua New Guinea Loi Bakani PARAGUAY Central Bank of Paraguay Jose Cantero Sienra PERU Central Reserve Bank of Peru Julio Velarde Flores PHILIPPINES Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Benjamin Diokno POLAND National Bank of Poland Adam Glapinski  PORTUGAL  European Central Bank  Mario Centeno QATAR Qatar Central Bank Abdullah Saud Al-Thani ROMANIA National Bank of Romania Mugur Isarescu RUSSIA Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina (F) RWANDA National Bank of Rwanda John Rwangombwa  SAINT LUCIA Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Allen Chastanet SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Timothy Harris SAINT VINCENT & GRANADINES Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Camillo Gonsalves SAMOA Central Bank of Samoa Atalina Ainuu Enari (F) SAN MARINO Central Bank of the Republic of San Marino Catia Tomasetti (F) SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE Central Bank of Sao Tome and Principe Helio Silva Almeida SAUDI ARABIA 1) Saudi Central Bank  Fahad al-Mubarak SENEGAL Central Bank of West African States Mamadou Camara  SERBIA National Bank of Serbia Jorgovanka Tabakovic (F) SEYCHELLES Central Bank of Seychelles Caroline Abel (F) SIERRA LEONE Bank of Sierra Leone Kelfala Kallon (appointed)  SINGAPORE Monetary Authority of Singapore Ravi Menon SLOVAKIA European Central Bank  Peter Kazimir  SLOVENIA European Central Bank  Bostjan Vasle   SOLOMON ISLANDS Central Bank of Solomon Islands Denton Rarawa SOMALIA Central Bank of Somalia Abdirahaman Mohamed Abdullahi SOUTH AFRICA South African Reserve Bank  Lesetja Kganyago  SOUTH KOREA Bank of Korea  Juyeol Lee SOUTH SUDAN Central Bank of South Sudan Dier Tong Ngor SPAIN European Central Bank  Luis Maria Linde SRI LANKA  Central Bank of Sri Lanka Ajith Nivard Cabraal  SUDAN  Central Bank of Sudan Mohamed Elfatih Zeinelabdin SURINAME  Central Bank of Suriname Maurice Roemer SWEDEN The Riksbank Stefan Ingves SWITZERLAND Swiss National Bank  Thomas Jordan SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC  Central Bank of Syria Mohammad Issam Hazimeh TANZANIA Bank of Tanzania Florens Luoga TAIWAN Central Bank of the Rep. of China  Yang Chin-long TAJIKISTAN National Bank of Tajikistan Abdujabbor Shirinov THAILAND  Bank of Thailand Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput TOGOLESE REPUBLIC Central Bank of Togo Kossi Tenou TONGA National Reserve Bank of Tonga Sione Ngongo Kioa  TRINIDAD & TOBAGO Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago Alvin Hilaire TUNISIA Central Bank of Tunisia Marouane el Abassi TURKEY Central Bank of Republic of Turkey Sahap Kavcioglu TURKMENISTAN Central Bank of Turkmenistan Merdan Annadurdyyev UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Central Bank of United Arab Emirates Khalid Mohammed Al Tameemi UGANDA Bank of Uganda Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile UKRAINE National Bank of Ukraine Kyrylo Shevchenko  UNITED KINGDOM  Bank of England Andrew Bailey URUGUAY Central Bank of Uruguay Mario Bergara  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  Federal Reserve Jerome H. Powell  UZBEKISTAN Central Bank of the Rep. of Uzbekistan Mamarizo Nurmuratov VANUATU Reserve Bank of Vanuatu Simeon Malachi Athy VENEZUELA Central Bank of Venezuela Ramon Lobo  VIETNAM State Bank of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Hong (F) YEMEN Central Bank of Yemen Hafez Mead ZAMBIA Bank of Zambia Francis Chipimo ZIMBABWE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe John Mangudya REGIONAL CENTRAL BANKS: CENTRAL BANK NAME GOVERNOR/PRESIDENT/CHAIR EUROSYSTEM  European Central Bank  Christine Lagarde (F) E. CARIBBEAN CUR. UNION Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Timothy Antoine  W. AFRICAN ECO & MON UNION Central Bank of West African States Tiemoko Meyliet Kone ECO & MON COM OF C. AFRICA Bank of Central African States Abbas Mahamat Tolli Notes: 1) Formerly Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority 2) Finance Minister Arturo Herrera named governor. De Leon's term expires 12/31/21 3)  Named acting governor Aug. 23, 2021 4) Named acting governor Sept. 7, 2021

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