Ann leads Mastercard’s Gender Steering Committee, presiding over D&I initiatives including a Mentoring scheme, Relaunch Your Career program and enhanced gender-neutral parental leave. She is sponsor of Mastercard’s Boards for Impact scheme matching female executives with NFP boards – now extended to black US executives. She champions Girls4Tech, committed to educate 5million girls in STEM by 2025 and Mastercard‘s lead in a $100m early-stage venture fund focused on one female equity holding executive. Ann is active with UN Generation Equality, where Mastercard pledged to reach 25million women-led SMEs by 2025 as part of their drive to include an extra 1billion people into the financial system. Outside Mastercard, Ann is Global Chair of the 30% Club, a campaign in over 20 countries committed to boosting female representation at board/executive level. She is also Chair of Financial Alliance for Women, working with banks/Fintechs on the SHEeconomy. Ann is the lead director of BEIS, the UK government department for enterprise, net zero and innovation.
