Carolyn Wilkins

Carolyn Wilkins was appointed as the Bank of Canada's Senior Deputy Governor in 2014, for a seven-year term. She is the first woman to occupy this position at the Bank. As Senior Deputy Governor, Ms. Wilkins oversees the strategic planning and economic and financial research of the Bank. She also shares responsibility for the conduct of monetary policy with the other members of Governing Council, and she is a member of the Bank's Board of Directors. Ms. Wilkins has more than a decade of experience with financial system regulation. As head of the Bank's Financial Markets Department, she was in the trenches during the 2007-09 global financial crisis. Now, she brings the Canadian perspective to international authorities. She represents the Bank at the Financial Stability Board and chaired the FinTech Issues Group, an international committee that studies key supervisory and regulatory issues related to fintech from a financial stability perspective. She also led the Basel Committee's worki