Central Banker of the Year 2024

The Banker’s Central Banker of the Year 2024 awards celebrate the officials that have best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their economy.

Central Banker of the Year 2022

The Banker's Central Banker of the Year 2022 awards celebrate the officials that have best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their economy. 

Central Banker of the Year 2021

The Banker's Central Banker of the Year 2021 awards celebrate officials that have best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their economy. 

Central Banker of the Year 2020

The Banker's Central Banker of the Year 2020 awards celebrate the officials that have best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their economy. 

Central Banker of the Year 2019

The Banker's Central Banker of the Year 2019 awards celebrate the officials that have best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their economy. 

Central Banker of the Year 2018

The Banker's Central Banker of the Year 2018 awards celebrate the officials that have best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their economy. 

Central Banker of the Year 2017

The Banker's Central Banker of the Year 2017 awards celebrate the officials that have best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their economy. 

Central Banker of the Year 2016

The Banker's Central Banker of the Year 2016 awards celebrate the officials that have best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their economy. 

Central Banker of the Year 2015

The Banker's Central Banker of the Year 2015 awards celebrate the officials that have best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their economy. 

Central Bank Governor of the Year 2014

The Banker’s Central Bank Governor of the Year awards celebrate the officials who managed to restore economic stability and even growth to their countries following a turbulent few years.

Central Bank Governor of the Year 2013

The Banker's Central Bank Governor of the Year awards celebrates the officials that successfully steered their countries through the economic turbulence of 2012.

Central Bank Governor of the Year 2012 - Global and Americas

The role of central bank governor has come under increasing scrutiny over the past 12 months as markets in the developed world continued to wobble. The Banker recognises those who have led their countries’ economies  through what has been another tumultuous year.

Central Bank Governor of the Year 2012

The role of central bank governor has come under increasing scrutiny over the past 12 months as markets in the developed world continued to wobble. The Banker recognises those who have led their countries’ economies  through what has been another tumultuous year.

Regional Winners - 2011

The Banker identifies those that have been integral to their countries' recoveries from various financial crises.

Central Bank Governor of the Year 2011

In the 18 months that he has been in office, Lamido Sanusi has salvaged a crumbling financial sector, taken on Nigeria's powerful and corrupt bank managers and initiated reforms that have put Africa's most promising market back on the map for investors.

Central Bank Governor of the Year 2010 - Global & Latin America

The Banker toasts the talents of the world's top central bank governors whose leadership has been at the forefront of the battle to contain the global financial crisis.

Central Banker of the Year 2009

The Banker salutes the world’s top central bank governors who have shown unflinching leadership during the credit crunch, helped rejuvenate their country’s economies and succeeded in opening up once opaque financial structures.

Central Banker of the Year 2008

The Banker salutes the world’s top central bank governors who have shown unflinching leadership during the credit crunch, helped rejuvenate their country’s economies and succeeded in opening up once opaque financial structures.

Central Bank Governor of the year 2007

The Banker heralds the world’s best central bank governors who have stuck to their guns when under fire, whether it be encouraging diversification, controlling inflation or fighting off the governmental propensity for meddling.