Victor Gomez

Assistant Vice President & Head (Corporate)
Global Government Affairs and Public Policy
Sun Life Financial 

Victor Gomez serves as Assistant Vice President & Head (Corporate) of Global Government Affairs and Public Policy at Sun Life. In this role, he supports Sun Life’s Canadian and global government affairs activities, including financial sector and sustainability policy, and provides strategic advice to the CEO and other senior executives.

Mr. Gomez also works on country and geopolitical risk analysis for Sun Life’s global operations in Canada, the United States, and Asia. Prior to joining Sun Life in 2017, Mr. Gomez worked for seven years in government relations for Scotiabank, where he had similar responsibilities and covered a broad range of financial policy areas, including housing finance, payments, deposit insurance, retirement savings and macro-prudential regulation.

He also worked for nine years as a journalist in Eastern Europe, reporting and editing for a number of media outlets, including Bridge News, two power and energy supplements of the Financial Times, Radio Free Europe and the Open Media Research Institute. Mr. Gomez holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Carleton University as well as a Master of Arts and PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto.