Gideon Gono

Gideon Gono ( born November 29, 1959) is a Zimbabwean bank manager and, since November 2003 Director of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.

Life

Gideon Gono was before he was appointed head of the Central Bank of Zimbabwe, active in various banks, most recently at the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe. He was appointed in November 2008 for a further five years as head of the Central Bank of Zimbabwe. Gono is made ​​responsible over again, the economic crisis to have contributed including especially hyperinflation.

He also ordered numerous arrest warrants against businessmen who were accused have not kept their prices low enough. Some more indebted by him economic failure is the scarcity of fuel and food, as well as hyperinflation, which Gono has lifted by reinforced introduced into circulation banknotes, although many economists had advised thereof. He has numerous farms in Zimbabwe, which were expropriated farmers. He is also in possession of a parcel of land in Malaysia. His entry into the U.S. and the European Union is undesirable. He is the British journalist Jon Swain and the Sunday Times had an affair with the second wife of Robert Mugabe, Grace Mugabe rumored.

Award

Gono was in 2009, awarded by Harvard University in Cambridge (USA ) with the Ig Nobel Prize, a kind of " anti - Nobel Prize ".