Current Affairs - Persons - Discussion

The managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Ravi Menon, has been named the best central bank governor in Asia-Pacific for 2018 by the UK-based magazine, The Banker. Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat was also given this award in 2011 when he was then MAS's managing director. Over the last three years, the award went to the central bankers of Vietnam, India, and Bangladesh.