Ms. Audsley is a seasoned executive with over three decades of experience in financial services, specializing in structured finance, international trade, risk management, and sustainability. She has a strong record of building high-performing teams and delivering purposeful mandates. She is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of a Federal Crown Corporation, the Canada Enterprise Emergency Funding Corporation (CEEFC).
Prior to joining CEEFC, Lorraine held several senior leadership roles at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Export Development Canada, including Chief Risk Officer, Chief Credit Officer, and Chief Sustainability Officer. In these positions, she led financial underwriting, credit adjudication, special loans, portfolio oversight, enterprise risk management, as well as climate risk management and human rights policy oversight.
She has also served as a Senior Advisor with Ernst & Young Canada’s Financial Services Sustainability practice and operated an independent consulting practice focused on climate risk, international trade, structured finance, and enterprise risk management.
Ms. Audsley serves on the Boards of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation and the Ottawa Humane Society, is a member of the Equality Fund Investment Committee, and a Women in Nature Ambassador with Nature Canada.
Ms. Audsley holds a Master of Science in Finance from Henley Business School (University of Reading), a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and International Business from the University of Ottawa and is a graduate of INSEAD’s Advanced Management Programme.
