Patience Akyianu

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

Education

Akyianu completed her secondary school education at Wesley Girls' Senior High School in Cape Coast, the capital of the Central Region (Ghana). She graduated from the University of Ghana Business school with first class honours in Business Administration. She has an MBA from the same institution.

Career

Akyianu started work 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

Akyianu was named finance CEO of the year at the third Ghana CFO awards in 2017.
She was nominated among the 60 women rising in Africa in 2017.
Patience Akyianu was also nominated at the 2018 GECE Awards.
She was awarded the Nobles International Award, Africa Female Economic Champion-Banking, and was inducted into Global Women Leaders Hall of Fame and Woman of Excellence in Finance. She was a nominee in the Top 50 Rising Stars in Africa.
In 2021 she was African Female Business Leader of the Year.