Carolyn Wilkins

External Member, Bank of England

Carolyn Wilkins is a visiting senior research scholar in the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University and an external member of the Financial Policy Committee at the Bank of England. Carolyn co-leads the Bretton Woods Committee Digital Finance Project Team and serves on the board of directors at Intact Financial Corporation, a globally active property and casualty insurance company. Previously, she worked for twenty years at the Bank of Canada and served as senior deputy governor from 2014 to 2020. Carolyn’s role included setting monetary and financial system policies with the Governing Council and overseeing strategic planning and economic research. She contributed to international financial policies over her career, including as the Bank of Canada’s G20 and G7 deputy and member of the Financial Stability Board. Carolyn earned her master’s from the University of Western Ontario and her bachelor’s from Wilfrid Laurier University, both in economics. She received an Honorary Doctorate from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2022.