This is a list of people who have served in the senior-most positions at the Bank of Canada since 1934.
Canada’s central bank is led by a Governing Council—the Governor, the Senior Deputy Governor and Deputy Governors. They are responsible for policy-making and charting the strategic direction of the Bank.
Past Governors
Past Senior Deputy Governors1
Carolyn A. Wilkins
2014 – 2020
Tiff Macklem
2010 – 2014
Paul Jenkins
2003 – 2010
Malcolm Knight
1999 – 2003
Bernard Bonin
1994 – 1999
Gordon Thiessen
1987 – 1994
John Crow
1984 – 1987
Ruston William Lawson
1973 – 1984
Gerald Bouey
1972 – 1973
John Robert Beattie
1970 – 1971
Past Deputy Governors
Paul Beaudry
2019 – 2023
Timothy Lane
2009 – 2022
Lawrence L. Schembri
2013 – 2022
Lynn Patterson
2014 – 2019
Sylvain Leduc
2016 – 2018
Agathe Côté
2010 – 2016
John Murray
2008 – 2014
Jean Boivin
2010 – 2012
David Longworth
2003 – 2010
Pierre Duguay
2000 – 2010
Sheryl Kennedy
1994 – 2008
Tiff Macklem
2004 – 2007
Mark Carney
2003 – 2004
Paul Jenkins
1992 – 2003
Timothy Noël
1994 – 2001
Alvin Lamb
1993 – 1994
William White
1988 – 1994
Bernard Bonin
1988 – 1994
Charles Freedman
1988 – 2003
Ross Wilson
1984 – 1992
Gordon Thiessen
1984 – 1987
John Crow
1981 – 1984
Douglas Humphreys
1974 – 1983
Alain Jubinville
1974 – 1988
Bernard Drabble
1974
George Freeman
1974 – 1982
Gerald Bouey
1969 – 1972
Ruston William Lawson
1964 – 1973
Louis Hébert
1963 – 1972
Ralph McKibbin
1955 - 1971
Louis Rasminsky
1955 – 1961
Louis P. Saint-Amour
1954 – 1963
John Robert Beattie
1955 – 1969
James E. Coyne
1950 – 1954
Donald Gordon
1938 – 1949
James Osborne
1934 – 1938