Swedlove served as advisor to several finance ministers

Swedlove joins the CLHIA having spent the past year as president of the Financial Action Task Force, the international body responsible for setting standards in the fight against global money laundering and terrorist financing.

Prior to that appointment, Swedlove served as a senior federal official. In his last position as assistant deputy minister of the Financial Sector Policy Branch of the Department of Finance, Swedlove was the principal advisor to several Ministers of Finance regarding policy development at the federal level on financial institutions and Canadian financial markets, playing a key role in issues throughout the sector and in international trade in financial services.

In previous positions at Finance, Swedlove was responsible for the 2001 financial sector reform exercise, culminating in revised financial sector legislation. He was also the first chair of the Committee on Trade in Financial Services of the World Trade Organization in Geneva and lead negotiator for Canada in financial services at the NAFTA negotiations. Prior to joining Finance, Swedlove worked in the Industry and Energy departments of the federal government.