Gordon George Thiessen, OC (born August 14, 1938) was the sixth governor of the Bank of Canada from 1994 to 2001, succeeding John Crow.
Thiessen was born in South Porcupine, Ontario and raised in Saskatchewan.
Thiessen studied economics at the University of Saskatchewan[1] and received an Honours BA in 1960 and an MA in 1961.
In 1996, he received the government of Sweden's Order of the Polar Star in recognition of the assistance provided by the Bank of Canada to the Swedish Central Bank (Sveriges Riksbank) to assist them in developing their policy framework for combating inflation when the Swedish Krona was first floated in January 1993.
[2] In 1997, Thiessen received an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D) degree from the University of Saskatchewan.