43 Facts About Mark Carney

Mark Joseph Carney was born on March 16,1965 and is a Canadian economist and banker who served as the governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and the governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020.

Mark Carney was the chair of the Financial Stability Board from 2011 to 2018.

Mark Carney was born on March 16,1965, in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, the son of Verlie Margaret and Robert James Martin Mark Carney.

When Mark Carney was six, his family moved to Edmonton, Alberta.

Mark Carney attended St Francis Xavier High School, Edmonton before studying at Harvard University.

Mark Carney graduated from Harvard in 1988 with a bachelor's degree with high honours in economics, before postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford at St Peter's College and Nuffield College, where he received master's and doctoral degrees in the same field in 1993 and 1995, respectively.

Mark Carney spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs and worked in their Boston, London, New York City, Tokyo, and Toronto offices.

Mark Carney worked on South Africa's post-apartheid venture into international bond markets, and was involved in Goldman's work with the 1998 Russian financial crisis.

In 2003, Mark Carney left Goldman Sachs to join the Bank of Canada as a deputy governor.

From November 2004 to October 2007, Mark Carney was the senior associate deputy minister and G7 deputy in the Canadian Finance Department.

Mark Carney served under two finance ministers: Ralph Goodale, a Liberal and Jim Flaherty, a Conservative.

Mark Carney was the lead on the federal government's profitable sale of its 19 percent stake in Petro-Canada.

In November 2007, it was announced that Mark Carney would be appointed Governor of the Bank of Canada.

Mark Carney immediately left his position at the Department of Finance to serve as an advisor to the outgoing governor, David Dodge, before formally assuming Dodge's position on February 1,2008.

Mark Carney was selected over Paul Jenkins, the senior deputy governor, who had been considered the front-runner to succeed Dodge.

Mark Carney took on this role at the beginning of the 2007 global financial crisis.

At the time of his appointment, Mark Carney was the youngest central bank governor among the G8 and G20.

Mark Carney earned various accolades for his leadership during the financial crisis: he was named one of Financial Timess "Fifty who will frame the way forward", and of Time Magazine's 2010 Time 100.

In October 2012, Mark Carney was named "Central Bank Governor of the Year 2012" by the editors of Euromoney magazine.

On November 4,2011, Mark Carney was named Chairman of the Basel-based Financial Stability Board.

At his first press conference as Chairman of the FSB in January 2012, Mark Carney laid out his key priorities for the board.

Mark Carney served as Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements' Committee on the Global Financial System from July 2010 until January 2012.

Mark Carney is a member of the Group of Thirty, an international body of leading financiers and academics, and of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum.

Mark Carney attended the annual meetings of the Bilderberg Group in 2011,2012 and 2019.

Mark Carney succeeded Sir Mervyn King on July 1,2013.

Mark Carney was the first non-Briton to be appointed to the role since the Bank of England was established in 1694.

Mark Carney has been quoted as saying that Haldane does not have a "proper understanding of the facts" on bank regulation.

Mark Carney was appointed as United Nations special envoy for climate action and finance as he prepared to step down as governor of the Bank of England in March 2020.

In February 2021, Mark Carney had to retract an earlier claim that the $600 billion Brookfield Asset Management portfolio was carbon neutral.

In February 2021, Mark Carney joined the board of fintech company Stripe.

Mark Carney helped launch the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero at COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021.

Mark Carney warned many times that Brexit was expected to negatively influence the UK economy.

Mark Carney replied that he felt it was his duty to speak up on such issues.

In September 2018, Philip Hammond, the chancellor of the Exchequer, confirmed speculation that Mark Carney would remain as Governor until January 2020, in order to ensure a "smooth" transition after the UK was set to leave the EU on March 29,2019, a departure deadline that was missed.

In November 2018, Mark Carney warned that large parts of the British economy were not ready for a no-deal Brexit.

In February 2019, speaking about the global economy, Mark Carney provided a less negative perspective on Brexit, stating that globalisation has resulted in "imbalances of democracy and sovereignty", and that Brexit "is the first test of a new global order and could prove the acid test of whether a way can be found to broaden the benefits of openness while enhancing democratic accountability".

Mark Carney has taken a leading position on the need for climate action.

The Times article cited Carney saying London would likely be the host of the new "new pilot market for voluntary carbon offsets" which could be "set up" by December 2021.

Mark Carney met his wife, Diana Fox, a British economist specializing in developing nations, while at the University of Oxford.

Mark Carney is active in various environmental and social justice causes.

Mark Carney continued playing the sport with the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club while studying at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Mark Carney completed the 2015 London Marathon in 03:31:22, which was 17 minutes faster than his time at the 2011 Ottawa Marathon.

Mark Carney has distant relatives in Liverpool and is a supporter of the city's Everton FC Mark Carney is a supporter of the Edmonton Oilers.