Brian Langrin takes office as governor of the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) at an important moment on the country’s economic journey. He succeeds the highly regarded Richard Byles, whose seven-year tenure helped consolidate BOJ’s independence, inflation-targeting regime, and institutional credibility through COVID-19, global inflation, and extraordinary internal and external shocks. Dr Langrin, therefore, inherits a much stronger central bank than many of his predecessors did. His first obligation is simple: protect it.