Paul Jenkins is a Canadian economist and Distinguished Fellow at The Centre for International Governance Innovation.
He was most recently the Senior Deputy Governor and Chief Operating Officer of the Bank of Canada, the number two position in that institution.
Jenkins joined the Bank of Canada in 1972 as an economist with the Research Department.
He became Chief of the Research Department in 1984 and was made an Adviser to the Governor in January 1989.
Jenkins notified the board on October 29, 2009 that he would not seek a renewal once his seven-year term expired in April 2010.