Mark Carney | 2025 Whitehead Award for Distinguished Public Service and Financial Leadership
Mark Carney is the chair of Brookfield Asset Management and head of Transition Investing. In this role, he is focused on the development of products for investors that will combine positive social and environmental outcomes with strong risk-adjusted returns.
Mr. Carney is an economist and banker who served as the governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, and prior to that as governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 until 2013. He was chairman of the Financial Stability Board from 2011 to 2018. Prior to his governorships, Mr. Carney worked at Goldman Sachs, as well as the Canadian Department of Finance.
He is a long-time and well-known advocate for sustainability, specifically with regard to the management and reduction of climate risks. He is currently the United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and co-chair for the Glasgow Finance Alliance for Net Zero.
He is also chair of the Group of Thirty and Bloomberg LP’s board of directors, as well as an external member of the board of Stripe, a member of the global advisory board of PIMCO, Harvard University, Rideau Hall Foundation, Bilderberg, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Blavatnik School at Oxford and the Hoffman Institute for Global Business and Society at INSEAD, Cultivo, senior counsellor of the MacroAdvisory Partners and advisor of the Watershed, as well as president of Chatham House.
Mr. Carney holds doctorate and master’s degrees from Oxford University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University.