Daniel Koldyk
Daniel Koldyk was appointed Director of Horizon Risk Surveillance at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) in August 2023. Prior to this post, Daniel served as the Economics and Finance Counsellor at the Embassy of Canada to China and Chief Representative of the Department of Finance to China from 2018 to 2023. In these roles, he led the Embassy’s macroeconomic analysis of greater China, strategic economic and financial policy, and financial services advocacy for the China market. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) and as a representative for Canada to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global body that addresses issues related to money laundering and terrorist financing. From 2009 to 2018, Daniel served as a senior advisor on China and Asia for Finance Canada, Export Development Canada, and Global Affairs Canada.
Daniel completed an MPhil and doctorate at the University of Oxford, St. Antony’s College, and spent over a decade in Beijing, Shandong and Liaoning researching issues related to economic and political policymaking. He has a Master of Arts in East
Asian Studies from the University of Toronto and an undergraduate degree from the University of Western Ontario.
Daniel has published his research in North American, European, and Asian journals and won several research awards, including the University of Oxford’s Wai Seng Senior Research Scholarship and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship.