Brian Langrin was appointed the 12th Governor of Bank of Jamaica, effective 19 August 2026. He brings extensive national, regional, and international leadership experience spanning monetary policy, financial stability, macroprudential oversight, payment systems modernisation, digital financial infrastructure, sovereign debt strategy, and institutional governance.
Dr. Langrin is an economist and senior central banking and multilateral development policy executive. He assumed the governorship after 16 years of service to Bank of Jamaica and a further decade providing technical and executive leadership to central banks, governments, and multilateral institutions across the Caribbean and Latin America. He returns to Nethersole Place with deep institutional knowledge, experience in building Jamaica’s financial stability architecture and helping to steer the country through sovereign debt restructuring, and the global perspective gained from senior assignments with the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank Group, and the World Bank Group.
Previous BOJ Assignment
During his previous tenure at BOJ, Dr. Langrin served for two years as Senior Economist in the Research and Economic Programming Division before leading the Financial Stability Department for 14 years. He provided senior leadership across system-wide risk mitigation, economic research, payment systems reform, macroprudential policy and institutional modernisation. He advanced policy, legislative and institutional reforms that strengthened financial sector resilience, capital market stability and coordination among financial stability, monetary policy, and payment system functions. As Chief Economist, he established the region’s first central bank financial stability department, elevated the BOJ Financial Stability Report as a principal accountability and policy instrument, and led research and policy programmes in payments reform, financial resilience, inclusion, and macroeconomic policy coordination.
At BOJ, Dr. Langrin served as technical lead for the Government of Jamaica during two sovereign debt restructurings. He coordinated with the IMF and Jamaican financial institutions to secure stakeholder support, manage systemic risks and maintain market stability and confidence throughout programme implementation. He also delivered technical assistance to Caribbean central banks on stress testing and macroprudential policy, helped embed Jamaica’s macroprudential mandate in the Bank of Jamaica Act, and strengthened the supporting analytics, institutional capability, governance, accountability, and reporting frameworks.
International Experience
The Governor’s international policy experience includes service as Regional Financial Stability Advisor at the IMF-administered Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Centre (CARTAC). In that role, he led regional capacity-building initiatives in financial stability across more than 20 member territories. He also led missions that trained Caribbean central bank staff to use the IMF’s correspondent banking monitoring toolkit, supporting regional efforts to respond to de-risking pressures that have threatened access to cross-border payment channels.
He later served as an Executive Director at the Inter-American Development Bank Group, representing the constituency that includes Jamaica, and chaired the Board’s Audit and Assurance Oversight Committee.
Dr. Langrin also served as Board Advisor to the Executive Director for Canada, Ireland, and the Caribbean at the World Bank Group, contributing to the renewal of the Bank’s Small States Strategy.
Most recently, Dr. Langrin directed a CARICOM Secretariat regional project to modernise cross-border payments and digital financial market infrastructure. He translated payments and securities-settlement priorities across the Community’s 15 Member States into a coherent regional programme and convened regulators, central banks, stock exchanges, and development partners around an interoperable settlement model.
Dr. Langrin also served as Caribbean Regional Director for the Global Association of Risk Professionals.
Dr. Langrin was educated at Campion College and the University of the West Indies, Mona, where he earned a BSc in Economics and Management and an MSc in Economics. He earned his PhD in Economics from Pennsylvania State University.
