OTTAWA, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney led the Liberal Party to its fourth consecutive win on Tuesday.
Carney, the leader of the Liberal Party, was sworn in as Canada's 24th prime minister on March 14 and became the first Canadian prime minister who has never worked as an elected official.
Carney was born in the town of Fort Smith in Canada's Northwest Territories in 1965, and raised in Edmonton, capital city of Alberta Province.
He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree and received his doctoral degree in economics at Oxford University in 1995. Carney started his career in finance, with rich working experience at Goldman Sachs, before joining the Bank of Canada as a deputy governor in 2003. In 2004, he was appointed as senior associate deputy minister of finance.
Carney served as the governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013. During the 2008 financial crisis, Carney guided Canada through one of the most turbulent economic periods in modern history.
Then in 2013, he was recruited as the governor of the Bank of England, the first non-British person to take the role, leading efforts to support the British economy through Brexit and the economic and political crises that followed.
In 2020, he began serving as the United Nations (UN) special envoy for climate action and finance, helping rally the world to build stronger economies. ■