Tunisia: Marouane El Abassi Elected Mena Central Bank Governor of 2019

Tunis/Tunisia — Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) Marouane EL Abassi was elected on October 19, in Washington as the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) Central Bank Governor for 2019. This prize was awarded by the specialised magazine "Global Markets" during a ceremony organised on the fringes of the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (WB / IMF), BCT said on Monday.

Taking the floor during the meeting, El Abassi recalled the efforts exerted by the BCT which have helped in the past months to raise the currency reserves to cover over 100 days of imports and reverse the inflation and stabilise the Tunisian dinar, a BCT press release reads.

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