His time at the helm has been colored by financial crises and critics have come down heavily on the interest rate strategy pursued.
- It comes with the office that there are always those who think they know better, says the outgoing Riksbank Governor himself.
One of the critics was the then Prime Minister Göran Persson, who questioned Stefan Ingve's first interest rate increase.
But before he became governor of the Riksbank and one of Sweden's most powerful people, he shone with the epithet financial puppy.
See more about Ingve's journey in the video.