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Shamina leads social and environmental impact for Mastercard. She is the founder and president of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and serves as executive vice president of sustainability. As President of the Mastercard Impact Fund, she is charged with activating philanthropic capital and company assets to advance inclusive growth and financial inclusion around the world. She is also a member of the company’s Management Committee and represents Mastercard as an ex- officio member of the Mastercard Foundation Board of Directors.
Deeply committed to public service, Shamina has held senior positions in the presidential administrations of Presidents Clinton, Obama, Trump and Biden. Most recently, she served as a member of the President’s Export Council, the principal national advisory committee on international trade. In addition. she worked in the U.S. House of Representatives for former Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.
She has served on many boards and currently sits on the boards of data.org and The Asian American Foundation; and advisory boards OKTA for Good, the Aspen Institute’s Civil Society Fellowship and the World Bank/CGAP’s Financial Inclusion Council. She is a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute and an alum of the World Economic Forum’s global leaders program.
Her work has been recognized by leading publications, including the Financial Times, Fortune, Forbes and American Banker. In 2024, Fast Company recognized the Center as one of the Most Innovative Companies in the Corporate Social Responsibility space; and Time Magazine named Mastercard to its list of Top 100 Sustainable Companies.
She earned a Bachelor of Science from Old Dominion University and a Master of Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. She received the alumni of distinction award from both institutions and is a contributor to MIT Sloan Management Review on the topic of Responsible AI.
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