Mark Carney: the ‘rock star central banker’ weighing up run to be Canada’s PM
Former Bank of England governor in the frame as successor to departing Justin Trudeau
Mark Carney, who has said he is considering a run to replace Justin Trudeau as the Canadian premier, spent seven years in the UK as the Bank of England governor.
Carney was headhunted in 2013 by the then chancellor, George Osborne, after serving as the governor of the Bank of Canada, and was known at the time by the unlikely epithet of “rock star central banker”.
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