Mark Carney

He served from 2013 to 2020, leading the central bank's responses to Brexit and the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following his governorship, Carney held several roles in the private and public sectors. He served as chair of Bloomberg L.P., vice-chair at Brookfield Asset Management, and co-chair of the World Bank's private sector investment lab. He was the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance from 2020.

He was also an informal advisor to Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, before returning to the private sector. In 2024, Carney was appointed as chair of the Liberal Party's Task Force on Economic Growth. After Trudeau announced his resignation in January 2025, Carney entered the Liberal Party leadership election, winning a landslide victory that March.

He was appointed prime minister soon after, becoming the first in Canadian history never to have held elected office. Carney then advised the governor general to dissolve Parliament and trigger a federal election. He led the Liberals to a minority government—overturning previous poor opinion polling to win the party's fourth consecutive mandate since 2015—and was elected to represent the riding of Nepean in the House of Commons.

The Liberals gained a majority of seats in Parliament in April 2026 through opposition MPs crossing the floor and by-elections. During his tenure as prime minister, Carney removed the federal consumer carbon tax, enacted the One Canadian Economy Act to reduce interprovincial trade barriers and expedite major infrastructure projects in response to a trade war started by the United States, launc