The new head of the Financial Services Commission of takes up his post today. Philip Howell becomes FSCO’s CEO and superintendent of financial services.

Howell was previously deputy minister of economic development for the Ontario government. Prior to that appointment, he was the deputy minister of tourism, and before that he was the associate deputy minister of finance, responsible for Treasury Board. During that stint in Finance he also served as the interim CEO and superintendent of FSCO for 14 months.

He has also worked as an economist at the Bank of Canada, in the economic policy branch in the former Ministry of Treasury, Economics and Intergovernmental Affairs, and in the private sector with a brokerage house, the Conference Board of Canada and a chartered bank.

Howell has an Honours BA in economics and an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics.

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