Follow the Money: Independent Insights from Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer

Yves Giroux, Parliamentary Budget Officer

Yves Giroux was appointed by the Governor in Council to serve as Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), effective September 4, 2018.

Mr. Giroux entered the federal public service in 1995. Over the course of his career, he assumed progressively senior level positions and increased responsibilities, joining the executive ranks in 2003.

Mr. Giroux has in-depth tax, fiscal and financial, and social policy knowledge and expertise, and considerable experience with stakeholder relations, and the management of large teams and multi-million dollar budgets. For more than 20 years, he has been closely involved in the federal Budget process in various capacities and is highly regarded as an expert on federal budget making and the Government’s expenditure system.

From 2015 to 2018, Mr. Giroux served as Assistant Commissioner and Chief Data Officer, with the Canada Revenue Agency. Prior to this, he was Director, at the Privy Council Office, for four years. From 2005 to 2011, he worked in the Social Policy Division of the Department of Finance.

Mr. Giroux is a graduate of the Université de Montréal, where he earned a Master’s and a Bachelor degree, both in Economics. He is married and has two adult children.