Dr Anna Breman has been named as the new Governor of the Reserve Bank. <\/p>\n
Breman had served as a deputy Governor of Sweden\u2019s Riksbank – its central bank – since 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cDr Breman comes to New Zealand with an impressive blend of technical skills and organisational leadership experience,” Finance Minister Nicola Willis said.<\/p>\n
Breman will be the first woman to hold the role. <\/p>\n
It comes after a period of turmoil for the Reserve Bank.<\/p>\n
Former Governor Adrian Orr resigned earlier this year in a row over funding<\/a>, followed by chairperson Neil Quigley late last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n Quigley’s resignation followed five months of scrutiny over Orr’s abrupt departure. <\/p>\n In June, Willis criticised the Reserve Bank over sharing information surrounding Orr\u2019s sudden resignation in March.<\/p>\n The rebuke came after the bank released documents under the Official Information Act, revealing Orr quit due to a funding dispute with the bank’s board and the Government.<\/p>\n Willis told Newstalk ZB in late August: \u201cIf Mr Quigley had not offered his resignation, I would have asked him for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Anna Breman has been named as the new Governor of the Reserve Bank. Breman had served as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[138,219,111,43,139,69,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-39804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}