Stéphane Lavoie was appointed Senior Director of the Bank’s Calgary Operational Site (COS) for market and banking operations, effective 30 July 2018. As the leader of the COS, Mr. Lavoie oversees the team supporting market and banking operations in Calgary. He also provides strategic direction and senior leadership to the Financial Markets Department (FMD) for a variety of financial system and funds management issues. He is responsible for overseeing the Bank’s trading operations, including those related to domestic market operations and the Exchange Fund Account.
Mr. Lavoie joined the Bank in 2001. He has a wealth of experience in financial markets analysis and operations, including collateral and liquidity policies, as well as in monetary policy, financial system and funds management issues. Previously, Mr. Lavoie served as Deputy Managing Director of the Bank’s Funds Management and Banking Department (FBD) and of the Financial Markets Department, and as co-chair of the Foreign Reserves Committee, the Debt and Treasury Management Committee, and the Retail Debt Committee. He also served as a member of the Bank of Canada’s Pension Fund Investment Committee and has represented the Bank on various international committees.
Mr. Lavoie graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and an MBA in Finance from Université Laval and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
