Gabriel Makhlouf is a British public servant and policymaker who has served as the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland since September 2019.

[3] He was appointed to the Central Bank after an open international competition led to him being the only name put forward to the Government of Ireland for appointment.

[1] However, his appointment has not been uncontroversial due to an incident in New Zealand when he claimed the disclosure of sensitive information was the result of a deliberate hack, when the information had actually been disclosed accidentally.

These reportedly included that he was not an economist and that he is a British citizen.

[4] Gabriel Makhlouf was born in Egypt to a Cypriot-British father and Greek-Armenian mother.