Biography
Term of appointment: 21 June 2021 - 20 June 2027
Carolyn A. Wilkins is an external member of the Financial Policy Committee at the Bank of England.
She is a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University’s Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, where she is a lecturer in the Department of Economics. Wilkins also serves on the board of directors of Canada’s Intact Financial Corporation, a company that provides property and casualty insurance in Canada and specialty insurance in North America and Europe. Wilkins is currently co-leading an independent review of the Riksbank, and co-led the review of the Reserve Bank of Australia in 2022-23.
She is a mentor to fintech entrepreneurs at the Creative Destruction Lab (HEC), and co-leads the Bretton Woods Committee’s Digital Finance Project Team. Wilkins worked for twenty years at the Bank of Canada, and served as Senior Deputy Governor from 2014 to 2020. She has contributed to international financial regulation, including as a member of the Financial Stability Board and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and as the Bank’s Deputy to the G20 and G7.
Wilkins earned her MA from the University of Western Ontario and her BA from Wilfrid Laurier University, both in economics. She received an Honorary Doctorate from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2022.
