Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has approved the appointments of three new vice governors for the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), Ethiopia’s central banking institution. However, the top picks for the positions has been met with mixed reaction from finance and economic experts. Fikadu Digafe, who was in charge of external economic analysis and international relations, has been appointed as vice governor and chief economist with NBE, which is the most important of the three vice governorships. Likewise, Eyob Gebre Eyesus, previously director of payments and settlements, has assumed the vice governorship to lead corporate services with NBE. He replaces Yemane Yosief, who was heading NBE’s corporate services cluster at the vice governor level.

Source: Ethiopian News October 05, 2019 07:41 UTC