Hard-working, photogenic Goldman Sachs alumnus with more than a decade’s experience running two G7 central banks seeks new (short-lived?) role at the top of Canadian politics.
To Mark Carney’s supporters, the 59-year-old former governor of the Bank of England has the perfect CV to fill Justin Trudeau’s shoes as leader of the Liberal Party and prime minister of Canada. After graduating from Harvard and Oxford and spending 13 years as an investment banker, in which he simultaneously made a fortune and advised the African National Congress (ANC) in post-apartheid South Africa, he took over the Bank of Canada in 2008 at the age of 42. There, he successfully limited the country’s exposure to the global financial crisis by forcing his former investment banking colleagues to reserve more capital. In 2010, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
