Before his studies at Oxford, Carney worked for Goldman Sachs, rising to become managing director of investment banking. While at Goldman Sachs he helped postapartheid South Africa gain access to international bond markets and advised Russia as it navigated a financial crisis in 1998.
The Canadian economist and banker Mark Carney is the son of Verlie Margaret (née Kemper) and Robert James Martin Carney.
When Carney was six, his family moved to Edmonton, Alberta. Carney has three siblings, an older brother and sister, Seán and Brenda, and a younger brother Brian.
Carney attended St. Francis Xavier High School, Edmonton before studying at Harvard University.
He spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs and worked in their Boston, London, New York City, Tokyo, and Toronto offices.
Carney progressively more senior positions included: co-head of sovereign risk; executive director, emerging debt capital markets; and managing director, investment banking.
He has 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.
Carney was the chair of the Financial Stability Board from 2011 to 2018. Prior to his governorships.
Since October 2020, he is vice chairman and head of Impact Investing at Brookfield Asset Management.