Ajay Banga

Ajay Banga is the President and CEO of MasterCard, a multinational financial services corporation headquartered at New York.

Banga is in charge of key business operations of the company, which mainly includes the customer relationships internationally in U.S. as well as global markets, products, services, marketing, technology and operations.

Prior to joining MasterCard two years back, Banga was lucky enough to be a part of some of the well-established companies such as Nestle, PepsiCo and Citibank.

Banga was honoured with ‘The Light of India Awards' in the year 2011 for the category ‘Corporate Leadership’. Moreover, he was named as the fourth "Most Powerful Indian" in the world by The Economic Times of India. He has served on various boards such as Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., the National Urban League and the New York Hall of Science, and he was also the director of the Council for Economic Education.

Banga, born to a Sikh family from Pune graduated in economics from St.Stephen’s College, Delhi University and also attended the Indian Institute of Management based in Ahmadabad.