Patrick Ngugi Njoroge is a Kenyan economist, banker and the ninth governor of the Central Bank of Kenya.

[2] While at Yale, Njoroge studied under professors such as William Brainard, Jim Tobin, and Robert J.

Following his PhD studies, he worked as an economist at the Kenyan Ministry of Finance from March 1993 until December 1994.

[8] In November 2018, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres appointed Njoroge to the United Nations Task Force on Digital Financing of Sustainable Development Goals, co-chaired by Maria Ramos and Achim Steiner.

[9] Under his leadership, the CBK issued direct benefit payments to help financially suffering Kenyans amid the COVID-19 pandemic.