Chrystia Freeland

The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada, currently serves as Economic Advisor to the President of Ukraine and Chief Executive Officer of the Rhodes Trust. She is also the author of Unreliable Boyfriend: An Insider’s View of Dealing with a Chaotic Superpower, Plutocrats, and Other Complicated People (2026). Freeland was elected in five consecutive national elections and served as a Member of Parliament from 2013 to 2026. She also served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2019 to 2024. She held office as Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs from 2019 to 2020 and as Minister of Finance from 2020 to 2024, becoming the first woman in Canadian history to hold the position. Her stewardship during and after the covid-19 pandemic protected jobs and businesses and delivered a historic soft landing for the Canadian economy, while preserving Canada’s AAA credit rating and securing the lowest debt and deficit ratios of any G7 country. During this same period, she played a central role in the global response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, including the seizure of Russian sovereign assets to support Ukraine.