Reserve Bank of New Zealand adds two new assistant governors.
Simone Robbers and Christian Hawkesby will join the Reserve Bank as assistant governors.
Their appointments complete the Reserve Bank’s new senior leadership team structure announced in 2018.
Ms Robbers will take up the new role of assistant governor and general manager of governance, strategy and corporate relations on February 18 2019.
Ms Robbers will be responsible for the bank’s strategic planning and performance, communications, legal, risk and audit teams, and the board secretariat. The strategic planning and performance unit is new and will be responsible for ensuring world class benchmarks are identified, measured and managed across all aspects of the bank’s activities.
Mr Hawkesby will take up the new role of assistant governor and general manager of economics, financial markets and banking on March 18 2019. He will oversee monetary policy formulation and research; monetary policy implementation and liquidity management, and foreign reserves management; and all matters relating to currency creation and distribution, including management of the payment and settlement system.
Most recently Mr Hawkesby has been a senior member of the Wellington-based Harbour Asset Management team.
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