Bio
Alexis Corbett was appointed Chief Operating Officer, effective May 2024. In this capacity, she oversees the Bank of Canada’s corporate departments and operations, as well as the currency function, and she is a member of the Bank’s Executive Council. Along with information technology, cyber security and risk, her portfolio includes other corporate functions such as financial services and human resources.
Alexis is also chair of the Canadian Financial Sector Resiliency Group, a public-private partnership led by the Bank of Canada, with a mandate to enhance the operational resilience of Canada’s critical financial sector and coordinate crisis responses in the financial sector during system-wide operational incidents.
Ms. Corbett joined the Bank in 2011 as Director of Human Resources (HR), a business line within the Corporate Services Department. She was promoted to Managing Director and Chief Human Resources Officer in 2014, when Human Resources was made a separate department, where she led a multi-year effort to modernize every aspect of HR. Alexis’s leadership contributed to the Bank being recognized as a Top 100 Employer in Canada, and she was named Canada’s “HR Leader of the Year” in 2018, a prestigious annual award from HRD Magazine.
Before she joined the Bank, Ms. Corbett worked for more than 15 years in operations and human resources for Canada Post Corporation in progressively senior and diverse positions.
Born in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Ms. Corbett has a master’s degree in business administration from the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa and a B.A. degree from the University of Western Ontario. In 2024, she received her ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors, a program focused on governance excellence. She is a graduate of the Advanced Program in Human Resources Management from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and has held a Certified Human Resources Leader designation since July 2001.