Mark Carney

Prime Minister of Canada, Office of the Prime Minister of Canada

1988, Bachelor's in Economics, Harvard University; 1993, Master's in Economics and 1995, Doctorate in Economics, Oxford University. Thirteen years with Goldman Sachs in London, Tokyo, New York, Toronto. 2003-04, Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada. 2004-08, Senior Associate Deputy Minister of Finance. 2008-13, Governor of the Bank of Canada. Since July 2013, Governor of the Bank of England. Chairman, Financial Stability Board (FSB); He is also an external member of the Board of Stripe, a member of the Global Advisory Board of PIMCO, Harvard University, Rideau Hall Foundation, Bilderberg, the boards of Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Peterson Institute for International Economics the Hoffman Institute for Global Business and Society at INSEAD, Cultivo, as well as Senior Counsellor of the MacroAdvisory Partners, Advisor of the Watershed, and Chair of Chatham House, the Group of Thirty and also Advisory Board Chair for Canada 2020. Carney served as Chair and Head of Impact Investing at Brookfield Asset Management and as Chair of the Board of Directors for Bloomberg L.P. He was also appointed the United Nations (UN) special envoy for climate action and finance. Carney also worked as one of many informal advisors to Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau during the COVID-19 pandemic and was made chair of the Liberal Party's economic growth taskforce in September 2024. In January 2025, following Trudeau's announcement of his resignation, he announced his intention to seek the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, winning a landslide victory in March.