Highly commended: Luis Angel Rojo, Central banker, Spain

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Central bank governors Europe-wide have spent the past year preparing their countries’ economies for monetary convergence. Luis Angel Rojo, governor of the Bank of Spain, has been particularly successful in this.

Despite a serious recession in 1992 and slow economic growth in 1996, Spain has since had a healthy growth rate that climbed to 3.7% of GDP this year.

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