"incredibly humbling"
"I didn't see so many women in big leadership roles who had families and I know that there are lots of women who think that they need to choose between work and having a family. What I love about the Bank of England is that we really support working families and working parents."
"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."
Afua Kyei is the Bank of England's chief financial officer and was named the UK's most influential Black person on the 2026 Powerlist. She manages financial governance for the Bank's roughly £1 trillion balance sheet and leads funding reforms. She studied chemistry at Oxford and held a junior research fellowship at Princeton before becoming an investment banker during the global financial crisis and later Barclays' Chief Financial Officer for Mortgages. She joined the Bank of England in 2019 and sits at the core of its leadership. She cites parents who emigrated from Ghana as role models and champions support for working families.
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