Who Is Mark Carney, Canada's Next PM

By: EjazUlHaqBhat

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Mark Carney will become Canada's next Prime Minister after winning the Liberal Party's leadership race by a landslide

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Mark Carney, 59, was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, on March 16, 1965, and raised in Edmonton, Alberta

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Mark Carney ran the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020

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After helping Canada manage the worst impacts of the 2008 financial crisis, he was recruited to become the first non-Briton to run the Bank of England since it was founded in 1694

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In 2020, he began serving as the United Nations' special envoy for climate action and finance

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He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University in 1988

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He further studied at Oxford University for his master's degree in 1993 and a doctoral degree in 1995

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He has Canadian, UK and Irish citizenship. His wife Diana is British-born and they have four daughters

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