Andrew Branion

Andrew is a seasoned banking executive with over thirty years experience and a somewhat unique perspective given senior roles across Treasury, Risk Management, Capital Markets and Central Banking.

Andrew’s most recent banking role was as Global Treasurer of Scotiabank, Canada’s most international bank. In that capacity, he had global responsibility for all Treasury and investment functions across North America, the Pacific Alliance countries, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. He was directly responsible for managing the Bank’s funding, liquidity, investment portfolios (bonds, public and private equity), structural balance sheet risks associated with $1,000B balance sheet, foreign exchange risks and the pension plan.

Prior to that, Andrew was Executive Vice President and Chief Market Risk Officer. Reporting to the Chief Risk Officer, he was responsible for global market risk, liquidity and funding risk, operational risk, enterprise risk (including Bank’s Recovery and Resolution plans), and model risk. He was a voting member of the Senior Credit, Market Risk Management Policy and Risk Policy Committees, and a regular participant at the Risk Committee of the Board of Directors.

Andrew began his career at the Bank of Canada in 1988 and joined Bank of Nova Scotia in 1997. He spent the next 15 years on the trading floor working with buy and sell side clients on structured derivative solutions. He has a BSc (Medical Microbiology) from the University of Alberta and an MBA (Finance) from the University of Toronto. He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors for Arthritis Society Canada and has prior Board experience.