Mark Carney was born in Fort Smith, Canada, in 1965, trained at Harvard and Oxford and worked at Goldman Sachs before joining the Bank of Canada, which he led from 2008 to 2013 — including through the global financial crisis. He then became the first non-British governor of the Bank of England, serving from 2013 to 2020.
Since leaving public office he has served as the United Nations special envoy on climate action and finance and as a senior adviser to Brookfield, anchoring much of the institutional financial sector's work on the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero and on the architecture of climate-aligned capital flows to emerging markets.
Carney is among the most cited contemporary thinkers on the relationship between central banking, financial stability and the climate transition, and his book 'Value(s)' has become a reference for the broader policy debate.