Patience Akyianu is a

Ghanaian Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in Ghana–Ivory Coast border, the west, Burkina ...

Banker .She is currently the Chief Executive Officer, Ghana at Hollard Insurance, and a former managing director of

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Ghana ( now Absa Bank Ltd).

Education

Patience Akyianu completed her Secondary School education at

Wesley Girls' Senior High School Wesley Girls' High School (WGHS) is an educational institution for girls in Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana. It was founded in 1836 by Harriet Wrigley, the wife of a Methodist minister. The school is named after the founder of Methodis ...

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, the capital of the Central Region (Ghana). She Later graduated from the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the Br ...

Business school with first class honors in Business Administration (accounting option). She also holds an MBA (Finance option) from the same institution.

Career

Patience Akyianu started her banking journey at Standard chartered bank as a financial controller. She rose to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in the South African office of the Standard chartered bank Africa regional operations.

Awards and nominations

Patience Akyianu was awarded the finance CEO of the year at the 3rd Ghana CFO awards in 2017. She was also nominated among the 60 women rising in Africa in 2017. Patience Akyianu was also nominated at the 2018 GECE Awards. Nobles International Award (2013), Africa Female Economic Champion-Banking (Centre for Economic & Leadership Development (CELD)-2014), she was inducted into Global Women Leaders Hall of Fame (CELD- 2014) and Woman of Excellence in Finance (Ghana CFO Awards 2015). Nominee in the Top 50 Rising Stars in Africa (The Africa Report, May 2014) 2021 she was African Female Business Leader of the Year

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