Mark Carney
Mark Carney | |
|---|---|
| 8th Governor of the Bank of Canada | |
| Assumed office February 1, 2008 | |
| Preceded by | David A. Dodge |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 16, 1965 Fort Smith, Northwest Territories |
| Nationality | Canada |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Nuffield College, Oxford |
Mark J. Carney (born March 16, 1965)[1] is the Governor of the Bank of Canada. He was appointed on February 1, 2008 for a term of seven years.[2][3] He is the youngest of any central bank governor within the G8 nations.[4]
Biography
Mark Carney was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. His father, Bob, was a high school principal in that town, and later a professor of education history at the University of Alberta. Mark and his three siblings—older brother Sean, younger brother Brian, and sister Brenda—moved with the family to Edmonton, Alberta when Mark was six years old. His mother, Verlie, had been an elementary school teacher before she had children. Mark and his two brothers all studied at Harvard University.[5]
Carney completed a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University in 1988. He attended Nuffield College, Oxford, where he received a master's degree in economics in 1993, and a doctorate in economics in 1995.[6]
Before joining the public service, Carney had a thirteen-year career with Goldman Sachs in its London, Tokyo, New York and Toronto offices. His progressively senior positions included co-head of sovereign risk; executive director, emerging debt capital markets; and managing director, investment banking. He worked on South Africa's post-apartheid venture into international bond markets, and was heavily involved in Goldman Sachs's work with the 1998 Russian financial crisis.[5]
Personal life
Carney married his wife, Diana, an economist dealing with Third World development, around the time he was finishing his doctoral thesis in the mid-1990s. They have four daughters and live in the Rockcliffe Park neighbourhood of Ottawa.[5]
Department of Finance
While at the Department of Finance, Carney oversaw the federal Conservative government's plan to tax income trusts at source. The Department of Finance also eliminated a 15% withholding tax on foreign leverage buyout loans and created capital insertion rules that restricted growth on Canadian trusts. These changes assertedly created conditions that favored foreign entities which purchased Canadian Income Trusts and were not required to comply with rules that restricted growth.[7][8]
Bank of Canada
MPs on the Finance Committee reviewed the appointment on December 5, 2007. [9] During the hearing, MP's Thomas Mulcair and Garth Turner questioned Mark Carney on his role as adviser to Jim Flaherty and Ralph Goodale and advice Carney gave relating to Income trusts. Carney was the bureaucratic point man in Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's controversial decision to tax income trusts. [10]
References
- ^ Bank of Canada's Mark J. Carney Biography
- ^ Bank of Canada Press Release
- ^ New Bank of Canada governor named
- ^ Vieira, Paul (2007-10-04). "Carney vaults over heir apparent for Bank of Canada top job". National Post. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b c Scoffield, Heather (2008-01-26). "Mark Carney takes up his mission". The Globe and Mail. pp. B1, B4–5. Retrieved 2008-01-29.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Mark Carney named next Bank of Canada governor". CBC News. 2007-10-04. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
- ^ Taxes, and avoiding them, on everyone's tongue - Foreign Takeovers
- ^ Income trust buyouts: Lots of activity, little tax revenue
- ^ Canadian Lawmakers Want Review of New Bank Governor
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"Questions abound as second-youngest governor assumes Bank of Canada helm". www.canadianbusiness.com. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
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