The last governor of the Bank of England was Canadian economist Mark Carney.
Mark Carney succeeded British economist, Mervyn Allister King, Baron King of Lothbury as the governor in 2013. He was the first non-Briton to be appointed to the role since the Bank of England was established in 1694.
Carney served as the governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and the governor of the Bank of England from July 2013 to March 2020.
He was the chair of the Financial Stability Board from 2011 to 2018.
Prior to his governorship, Mark Carney worked at Goldman Sachs as well as the Department of Finance Canada.
Since October 2020, Carney is vice chairman and head of Impact Investing at Brookfield Asset Management.
In February 2021, Carney joined the board of fintech company Stripe. As of March 2021, Stripe was valued at $95 billion.
The 121st and current governor is Andrew Bailey, who began his term in March 2020.