Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso, left, speaks next to Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, right, during a press conference after a meeting of finance ministers and heads of central banks of the Group of Seven in in Akiu, northern Japan, Saturday, May 21, 2016. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
In Nigeria in 2014, Lamido Sanusi was fired as head of the central bank after trying to track down $ 20 billion that he said had been stolen from that country's state oil company, NNPC. (fortune.com)
With the term of Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve chair ending next February, the president will have to nominate and the Senate will have to confirm a new head of the central bank in coming months. (larrysummers.com)