Gabriel Ngo is the Director of the Governor’s Review Office. In this role, he provides independent regulatory advice and strategic leadership for adjudications under the Retail Payment Activities Act. This includes establishing the function to support the Governor’s prescribed delegates to conduct reviews of certain Retail Payments Supervision (RPS) decisions. He will also be leading on non-operational files such as information sharing, negotiating memorandum of understanding, and regulatory policy. Gabriel was previously the Director of Enforcement, where his team designed and established the investigations and enforcement framework for RPS.

Throughout his career, he has developed a professional expertise in financial sector policy, international relations, compliance enforcement, as well as administrative law and monetary penalties. Gabriel has a particular interest in financial technology, payments, and virtual assets (cryptocurrencies). Based on this expertise, he has represented Canada at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and was Canada’s Head of Delegation to the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering.

Mr. Ngo holds a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Ottawa.