Governor's Award Description

The Bank of Canada promotes the economic and financial welfare of Canada through its activities in four main areas: monetary policy, currency, financial system stability, and funds management.  The Bank’s Fellowship Program seeks to foster excellence in research and analysis and to develop partnerships with experts outside the Bank in areas important to the Bank’s mandate

The Governor's Award provides funding to exceptional assistant and associate professors working at Canadian universities who have demonstrated the potential to make exemplary research contributions in their fields.

The award consists of $25,000 paid annually to the recipient for a two-year term subject to an annual confirmation process. Recipients of this award cannot apply for a second term.

Eligibility

Governor's Award recipients are required to:

• be Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada or be otherwise legally permitted to work in Canada;
• have obtained a PhD within 10 years of applying for the award;
• be employed by a Canadian university as an assistant or associate professor during the tenure of the award.

Nominations and applications must be submitted by 15 November.