Background
CROW, John was born in 1937 in London, England. Son of John Cornell Crow and Mary Winifred Weetch.
economist Governor of the Bank of Canada
CROW, John was born in 1937 in London, England. Son of John Cornell Crow and Mary Winifred Weetch.
University of Oxford. Balliol College.
He was succeeded by Gordon Thiessen. Born in London, England, he went to Parmiter"s School also he served with the Royal Air Force for two years before receiving a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford in 1961. He spent the next decade at the International Monetary Fund and was appointed Chief of the North American division in 1970.
In 1973, he joined the research department of the Bank of Canada as Deputy Chief and became chief about a year later.
He was appointed Adviser to the Governor in 1979 and Deputy Governor in May 1981. He was a director of Placer Dome from 1999 until it was acquired by Barrick Gold in 2006.
He is also the president of J&R Crow Incorporated.
Married Ruth Kent in 1963.