Michael Miebach is chief executive officer of Mastercard and a member of its board of directors.

He is leading the company into a more digital world where Mastercard powers economies and empowers people by harnessing innovation and the continued application of new technologies. The company is helping to shape the future of seamless commerce, while bolstering cyber services and data-powered insights.

For much of the past decade, Michael was critical to setting the strategy that transformed the company’s offerings from a consumer card-centric business to a platform supporting choice in how businesses, people and governments make payments. This strategy helped Mastercard diversify into new areas including real-time payments, open banking, digital identity and other value-added services.

His collaborative approach creates scalable and trusted solutions for the exchange of payments and data. Upon joining Mastercard in 2010, he helped shape the company’s financial inclusion efforts to deliver a commercially sustainable social impact.

Michael is a member of The Business Roundtable, The Business Council, the U.S.-India CEO
Forum, the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and The
International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. He is a trustee of the United
States Council for International Business and serves on the board of directors of IBM, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, the Metropolitan Opera and the World Resources Institute.