Sven List was appointed Senior Vice-President, Canadian Corporate Business in April 2024. In this role, he oversees EDC’s large-segment financing portfolio to support international trade for these critical drivers of Canada’s prosperity. 

Sven exhibits key leadership qualities at EDC, including strategic thinking, team building, and driving vision and purpose to serve customers. He has effectively leveraged EDC's networks to assist corporate clients in expanding into new markets, thereby supporting EDC's objective driving market diversification within the Canadian economy.

Prior to this, Sven was Senior Vice-President, Corporate and International. In that role, since April 2022, he was accountable for the relationship management and loan underwriting functions for EDC’s corporate customer segment as well as EDC’s international strategy and operations.

Since joining EDC in 2000, Sven worked in progressively senior roles in the Structured Project Finance (SPF) team before being promoted to VP and Head of Structured and Project Finance in 2014 and then VP and Head of Corporate Lending International. He was appointed to EDC’s Executive Management Team as Senior Vice-President, Trade Connections in May 2019. Prior to joining EDC, he held positions of increasing responsibility within the corporate banking unit of a foreign bank’s operations in Mexico.

Sven holds a master’s in business administration from McGill University, a BBA degree in finance and a BA in economics (honors) from The University of Texas at Austin.

The corporate value that resonates most: Sven values integrity, believing in honesty, openness, ethics, genuineness, and fairness in all his work.