SANTO DOMINGO.- President Luis Abinader ratified Héctor Valdez Albizu as governor of the Central Bank tonight.
The measure is contained in decree 442-22 released through the President’s Twitter account.
Valdez Albizu was appointed Governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic for the first time on August 31, 1994, a position in which he was reconfirmed in August 1996 by the then President of the Republic, Leonel Fernández Reyna, granting him the rank of Secretary of State, a position he held until August 16, 2000.
Again, on August 16, 2004, former President Leonel Fernández Reyna appointed him Governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic; subsequently he was ratified in the years 2006, 2008, 2010 and reconfirmed in August 2012, 2014 and 2016 by President Danilo Medina. Likewise, in 2020 he was ratified in office by President Luis Abinader.
He is ratified as governor of the @BancoCentralRD #HectorValdezAlbizu pic.twitter.com/ssxJpsVmam
– Luis Abinader (@luisabinader) August 11, 2022
