Mark Carney
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Inside Mark Carney’s Brexit Adventure
Reviled on one side and respected on the other, the Canadian also found time to reform the 325-year-old central bank.
When he agreed in 2012 to cross the Atlantic and swap the governorship of the Bank of Canada for that of the Bank of England, Mark Carney declared he was “going to where the challenges are greatest.”
More than seven years later, as he prepares to leave office, a somewhat wiser and certainly grayer-haired Carney acknowledges with a smile that “the challenges were even greater maybe than I realized at the time.”