She charmed her future husband thanks to her mirror talents. Career economist and mother of four, she does not hesitate to criticize consumer society and wealth differences. Discover who is Diana Fox Carney, the new first lady of Canada.
1) Present in the field
“I am lucky to have it, we are lucky to have it, now more than ever,” said Diana Fox of her slight British accent to introduce the Prime Minister just before his victory speech, on the night of Monday to Tuesday.
Diana Fox (back) when she had just introduced Mark Carney for her victory speech. AFP
Mark Carney’s wife was not as media as that of Pierre Hairyvre, but Diana Fox did play a role in her husband’s campaign. In the district of Nepean, she did door-to-door “in the rain, in the cold and the Grazil”, writes the local newsttawa Lookout, The only one to whom she has granted an interview in the past few weeks.
2) Farmer’s daughter
Diana Fox, 59, was born in rural England. His father was pig breeder.
Training economist, she specialized in agriculture and environment.
She holds three master’s degrees: one from the University of Pennsylvania, in the United States, and two from Oxford, in the United Kingdom.
It was also in Oxford that she met Mark Carney, when they were both students. They got married in 1994 and had four daughters.
Ms. Fox Carney now has double Canadian and British citizenship, just like her daughters.
3) united by the love of hockey
Ms. Fox was part of the Ice Hockey University Hockey Team, while Mr. Carney was part of the male equivalent. She was also on the ice when he noticed her for the first time, impressed by her game.
She was “recognized for her skill to get around her opponents and effortlessly cross the defensive line of the other team”, can be read on the site of former students of the Hockey Club of Oxford University.
Its athletic side has not left it since, according to the Toronto Star. Last winter, she completed a triathlon in Ottawa … while he was -18 ° C.
-4) Canada first
During their first gallant meeting, Mr. Carney immediately warned his new flame: he was determined to return to Canada and play a role in the public service.
The Carney couple on the way to the polling station on Monday April 28. Getty Images via AFP
The family therefore moved to the capital in July 2000, before Mr. Carney held the post of Governor of the Bank of Canada in 2008. Then, in 2013, he became governor of the Bank of England, forcing a return to Ms. Fox’s native country.
This decision to serve a foreign country rather than his “surprised” it, much more than that of running for the post of Canadian Prime Minister, she said to Ottawa Lookout.
5) scrutinized by the British press
Diana Fox Carney has a long roadmap in the field of finance and sustainable investments. She began her career in Zanzibar, Africa, then worked in various English and Canadian reflection groups related to climate change and social justice. She is an author of two books, especially on the management of natural resources.
In 2012 and 2013, several British media searched his old declarations about the overconsumption and wealth of 1%, when her husband had just been appointed head of the banking system.
At the time, she held an eco-responsible products assessment blog.
The Telegraph for example described it as “eco-warrior”.
She wore recycled vegan leather shoes and garden with cow dung, said the daily life, stressing that the couple’s house in Ottawa was worth more than $ 1.3 million in the 2000s.
– Avec National Post, Ottawa Lookout, Toronto Star, Global News, Daily Mail et Telegraph
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