During the global financial crisis, she was an investment banker before joining Barclays Bank where she was the Chief Financial Officer for Mortgages.
She joined the Bank of England in 2019 and is at the core of the Bank’s leadership and decision making.
She said her parents, who moved to the UK from Ghana to go to university at 18, have been her biggest role models.
“My mother came to Liverpool, trained to become a midwife and enjoyed a 40-year plus career working for the NHS.
“My father has enjoyed a long career in the oil industry. I saw them juggling work and home. They instilled really strong values in us,” she added.
Kyei hopes to inspire more young people to consider banking as a career.
“You don’t need to be a mathematician, you don’t need to be an accountant and you don’t need to be an economist. What we’re looking for is fresh perspectives and we want the best people”.
Kyei takes the place of tech CEO Dean Forbes at the head of the list.
