Tamara Gomes is Senior Director in the Financial Stability Department. In this role, she provides strategic leadership for the Bank’s analyses and research on issues related to the financial sector in Canada and abroad as well as the assessment of risks to financial system stability.
Ms. Gomes joined the Bank in 2006 as an economist in the International Economic Analysis Department. Over the years, she has held increasingly senior positions in the Financial Stability Department and the Financial Markets Department. She is an expert in post-crisis banking regulation reforms and has represented the Bank on these issues in both domestic and international forums. Her expertise has led to roles at other organizations, including as a Member of Secretariat to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. Ms. Gomes has also served as the associate coordinator of the Bank’s Financial System Review.
Most recently, Ms. Gomes was the Chief of Staff to the Senior Deputy Governor, where she worked closely with senior management to provide advice on strategic policy issues to support the Banks’s objectives.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Ms. Gomes holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and politics from Queen’s University and a master’s degree in international economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.