ANAND MENON

Vice President, Head of Government Solutions, Mastercard

Anand Menon is Vice President and Global Head of Government solutions at Mastercard. In his role, he supports governments in their goal to create efficiencies, improve transparency, while advancing social progress. Mastercard solutions support the delivery of more efficient public programs to support financial inclusion, drive the adoption of digital citizen services, accelerate the shift to a cash less economy, foster an inclusive society and drive economic progress.

Previously, Anand spent much of his career focused on financial inclusion, leading efforts at Mastercard, Accion, Bankable Frontier Associates and through numerous Microfinance Institutions in India & Nepal.

Anand teaches a graduate program at NYU on “Creating business models at the intersection of profit and purpose”. He also runs a small equity fund, Last Mile Capital, which funds start ups with an explicit double bottom line focus.