Gabriel Makhlouf is approved by Cabinet as the first non-Irish national to lead the Central Bank in its 76-year history (via IrishTimesBiz)
, is understood to have been the most senior figure from the Civil Service to make it to the final stages.
Andrew McDowell, vice-president of the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg and a former adviser toTaoiseach“The logic was that the position should go to the best candidate. It wasn’t restricted to Ireland, it wasn’t restricted to any one gender, or anyone who was or was not currently working in the Central Bank, so it was done really the way top jobs should be filled,” Mr Varadkar said after a Cabinet meeting in Cork.
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