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Founder and President, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
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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 dollars 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.
Currently, Shamina serves as a member of the President’s Export Council, the principal national advisory committee on international trade. She sits on the boards of data.org, the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders and co-chairs the Ad Council of America’s Advisory Committee on Public Issues. She is a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute and serves on advisory boards of the New York Department of Financial Services Innovation Council; and the CGAP Financial Inclusion Initiative, a subsidiary of the World Bank. She has been named to American Banker’s Most Influential Women in Payments and Financial Times’ Top 100 LGBT+ Executives. Recently, under Shamina's leadership, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth was included as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2024, in the Corporate Social Responsibility space.
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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