Patience Akyianu


Patience Akyianu is a Ghanaian Banker and a former managing director of Barclays Bank Ghana.

Education

Patience Akyianu completed her Secondary School education at Wesley Girls' Senior High School in Cape Coast, the capital of the Central Region. She Later graduated from the University of Ghana Business school with first class honors in Business Administration. She also holds an MBA 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 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, Africa Female Economic Champion-Banking, she was inducted into Global Women Leaders Hall of Fame and Woman of Excellence in Finance. Nominee in the Top 50 Rising Stars in Africa