Mark Carney, a Goldman Sachs alum who has run two different central banks and recently became prime minister of Canada, is looking to add another line to his resume today: elected leader.

Liberal party leader Mark Carney is pitted against Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives and opinion polls show Carney’s Liberals have a narrow lead ahead of voting. Mark Carney has had a distinguished career.

Carney was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada, in a family of teachers with three out of four grandparents hailing from County Mayo in Ireland.