Diana Fox Carney (Mark Carney’s

Some Lesser Known Facts About Diana Fox Carney

• Diana belongs to a wealthy English family, which is involved in pig farming.

• She spent her early childhood at the Quarwood House in Gloucestershire.

• Diana’s parents parted ways when she was very young.

• After completing her schooling in England, she enrolled at the University of Oxford, where she joined the university’s ice hockey team. She was also a member of Oxford’s skating and shooting club.

  

• It was during her time at Oxford that she met Mark Carney; they soon began dating each other. After dating one another for some time, the couple got married in 1994.

• At the University of Oxford, Diana specialised in Third World development.

• She studied at the University of Pennsylvania through the Thouron Scholarship program.

• Thereafter, the couple moved to Toronto, Canada, where they lived for a short while. They then shifted to Ottawa and after a few years, they relocated to London, where her husband, Mark, served as the Governor of the Bank of England.

• In 1994, she was chosen as a Research Associate and a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute in London; she served in the institute till 1998.

• In 1998, she joined the UK Department for International Development (DFID), where she assisted the British government in formulating policies to tackle the rising poverty. As a part of the DFID, she has also served in Eastern and Southern Africa, where she worked closely with various governments.

• She was then appointed as the Senior Advisor at Eurasia Group Ltd. She has also served as a Senior Advisor at BeyondNetZero and Helios Climate.

  

• Diana is also considered to be a climate policy expert. According to her, she became enthusiastic about the subject after she lived in Africa and saw the ill effects of climate change on the environment.

• In 2012, she supported the anti-banking Occupy movement and called the British banking structure “rotten and inadequate.”

• In 2020, following his retirement from the post, Diana and Mark moved back to Canada.

• She is a fellow at the Canada-based Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA).

• Diana has also written numerous economics-related articles for the magazine, Corporate Knights.

• She has also worked as a Strategic Adviser in Willis Towers Watson’s Climate and Resilience Hub.

• Diana Fox Carney is a philanthropist and has served as a board member with several international NGOs, including ClientEarth, Save the Children (UK), and the Shell Foundation.

• In 2022, she was invited by The Malburian Club to talk about the challenges of climate change. She gave a speech on the topic, “Climate Change: Progress to Date and Challenges Ahead.”

• She later joined Pi Capital as the executive director.

• Diana Fox has also served as Vice President of Research at Canada 2020, a think tank. There, she worked mostly on energy/environment issues as well as problems around income inequality.

• She has also served as the ambassador of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

• She also runs a website named Eco Products that Work where she sells eco-friendly products to its customers all around the world.

• In January 2025, it was revealed that Eurasia Group, where Diana works, received a $446,210 contract from the Canadian government for “geopolitical research, analysis, and insights” for Natural Resources Canada.

• She is an avid coffee and tea lover. She likes to begin her day by consuming coffee. She also has a kitchen garden, where she likes to work in her free time. She likes growing different types of flowers in it.