Sierra Leone: Ibrahim Stevens has become governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone, according to government and media sources. Stevens has been first deputy governor since July 2014. Stevens succeeds Kelfala Kallon, who had been governor since October 2018.

The new governor worked as a senior economist at the Bank of England between 2002 and 2012. He was seconded to the Bank of Sierra Leone as its head of research from 2008 to 2009. He has a PhD in financial economics from the University of Durham