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Rania Llewellyn is a Kuwaiti-born Canadian banking executive and the CEO of
Laurentian Bank The Laurentian Bank of Canada (LBC; french: Banque Laurentienne du Canada, link=no) is a Schedule I banks, Schedule 1 bank that operates primarily in the province of Quebec, with commercial and business banking offices located in Ontario, Alberta ...
. She was educated at Saint Mary's University and The American University in Cairo and had a 26-year career with
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before her appointment to Laurentian Bank in October 2020.


Early life and education

Llewellyn was born in Kuwait to an Egyptian father and Jordanian mother. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt but immigrated to Canada in 1992 after the Gulf War. Before immigrating to Canada, she had studied for two years at The American University in Cairo (1990-1992). She then attended Saint Mary's University in Halifax Nova Scotia, from 1992 to 1996, graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and an MBA in Marketing and International Business. In 2014 Llewellyn was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Commerce from Saint Mary's University.


Career

Llewellyn had a 26-year career at Scotiabank, beginning as a part-time teller. She served in a series of progressive roles with Scotiabank including: Vice President, Multicultural Banking; President & CEO of
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Capital; Senior Vice President, Commercial Banking, Growth Strategy; Senior Vice President, Products and Services, Global Transaction Banking and ultimately Executive Vice President, Global Business Payments. In 2019 she was awarded the Women in Payments Award for Thought Leader from the
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for her outstanding work in modernizing the Canadian payments industry. While working for Scotiabank, she championed the creation o
The Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC)
to help tackle the problem of immigrant underemployment. In October 2020, Laurentian Bank announced that she would replace acting CEO Stephane Therrien who had been serving as president and chief executive since Francois Desjardins retired in June 2020.


Personal life

She has two children with her husband, Sean Llewellyn.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Llewellyn, Rania Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Canadian bankers Canadian women chief executives Saint Mary's University (Halifax) alumni The American University in Cairo alumni Kuwaiti emigrants to Canada Laurentian Bank of Canada Scotiabank people