Carney, 59, will succeed Justin Trudeau, who announced in January that he would step down amid low approval ratings following a decade in office.

A political novice, the former governor of the Banks of Canada and England takes over from Justin Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party. Last July, the polling firm Abacus Data showed 1,989 Canadians the image of a blond man,

Mark J. Carney ’87 defeated fellow Harvard College alum Chrystia A. Freeland ’90 and two other Liberal Party candidates to become the 24th Prime Minister of Canada and the new leader of the Canadian Liberal Party on Sunday afternoon.