Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 25, 2009
• Invested on: June 18, 2010

Throughout his distinguished career, John Crow has served his community and country with great distinction. A highly regarded economist, he has served in leadership roles with the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of Canada. He showed vision and direction as governor of the Bank of Canada by establishing inflation targets, which represented a major advance in Canada's monetary policy regime. He is now president of an economic and financial consulting firm, and is a senior fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute. Many corporate boards and not-for-profit organizations, including Arts for Children of Toronto, have benefited from his counsel.