Franck Riboud

Congratulations: the topics you have chosen to work on are the right subjects. These are the stakes that are going to change the world tomorrow. But, while discussing, be sure of the reasons why you are talking about these topics: the WHY is what really matters. Is it to make more money? Wrong answer. Is it to be more efficient? Wrong answer. Is it to really build the futur of the world? Yes, that is the right answer.

Danone
France
Dr. Jacques Bughin

Many summits are show horse, not workhorses. Many summits have too many people gathering to listen to big figures, but in an impersonal building. Many summits are just an excuse for a good escape and business card exchange, but not about days of learning about themes/new people. A great summit - is the one where you learn new things, you meet new peers, and you get inspired- all that with a zest of close community, and of marvelous natural surroundings and arts. The G-20Y Summit is just that, especially for the set of young leaders ready to take a step up in their career, and build new leadership.
It has been a pleasure and honor to attend the G-20Y Summit and support the G-20Y Association.

McKinsey, McKinsey Global Institute
Belgium
Rachel Barger

I'm most certainly going to take back my experience at the G-20Y Summits to my customers and to my company. The more people we can have come into environment like this, the more diverse ideas we can have on how we leverage the power and the opportunities that exist with digital transformation.

SAP
Singapore
Daniele Agostini

I have been moderating and facilitating a large number of sessions across the world and it is the first time that I find such type of diversity of very focused and motivated people - it is really a great thing about the G-20Y Summit!

ENEL
Italy
Gregor Pilgram

The G-20Y Summit is a unique platform for insurers, where many insurance sector representatives from all over the world could meet.

Generali
Czech Republic
Barbara Kreissler

I feel very honored that G-20Y Organizing Committee has asked me to be part of this. I’m really excited just reading the program, the agenda and the list of participants on the kind of interaction and discussions that we are going to have on global issues that affect us all.

Signify
Netherlands
Olga Ryabova

I loved the whole idea of top executives coming from different industries and delivering their professional experience to make the best of recommendations for G20 countries heads and for international organizations. You know there was such mood of cooperation, of future understanding I would say. That was really great.

Former Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of Rosbank
Russian Federation
Onur Taysu

G-20Y Summit brings a magnificent group of people together who have adopted a global philosophy and perspective.
The G-20Y Association has utilized an effective selection process and following this selection came an in-depth work, consultation, evaluation and idea-sharing platform. In my opinion, G-20Y Summit is an efficient international think tank and networking platform that will mark the future.
The way the Summit was organized enabled me to learn and at the same time, thanks to the positive synergy existent, led me to contribute as well.
I would like to congratulate everyone who contributed and who attended the summit. I wholeheartedly will continue to support the G-20Y Summits and the G-20Y Association.

UCOM Global GmbH
Germany
Holger Erchinger

I believe the vision of the G-20Y Summit is to make a real and independent contribution regarding what the young generation of business leaders think around the issues the G20 has on its agenda. The G-20Y Summit brings together devoted participants from around the globe with diverse professional backgrounds onto a platform of creative thinking in order to develop some fresh ideas regarding potential solutions.

KPMG LLP New York
United States
Jorge Lukowski

I think the most important thing is to have different cultures, different people, different companies with different interests and all of them in different committees; that they are working together, merging ideas and arrive at consensus. And I think the young perspective which is a different thing – we don't need to make recommendations under any precision of politics or different kind of pressure you have if you are only a company or if you are only representative of government. So I think we can have an opportunity to be fresh, innovating, and creative in order to present a proposal that more recommendations could be actions. I think that the young people would like to take action more than make recommendations.

President & Founder
Argentina
Ekaterina Petelina

The whole idea of G-20Y Summit is that young people bring their ideas that might be controversial, that might be a little provocative, but are fresh. And they share it with the business community. I think and I hope that what we accomplished during these three days will actually be meaningful and will impact the decisions and discussion of G20 leaders.
I just have a habit – wherever someone asks “who?”, I just put my hand up. And this is not the best habit I have but when they asked the volunteer to be Co-Chair – I just thought that I have relevant experience as a former consultant, as a former Head of Strategy of VTB group and a business leader now. I think I have the relevant experience to talk about financial stability and financial regulation, which was the topic of our committee. And I think it’s a very important topic and it’s really one of the top items on G-20Y Summits agenda. Because without financial stability as we’ve seen before it’s really impossible to deliver growth, to deliver prosperity. I really enjoyed working with our committee members, we had ten people from different countries, different economies: Europe, UK, Russia, Malaysia, and Japan. It was interesting to see what similarities we have, what differences we have and different and similar ideas that we share. I think it really enriched my understanding of the industry at the global level and I believe we were able to deliver some meaningful and practical recommendations.
The most interesting moment for me of the Summit was the dancing master-class, because I’d never thought that you can learn how to dance tango in 30 minutes. I think our teachers did a very good job: very simple moves that everybody could repeat and learn within 30 minutes. It was a very good G-20Y and a very fast delivery of results.

VISA
Russian Federation
Philipp von Girsewald

I think it's great to have young business leaders, participating in the G-20Y Summit, who come together from a broad variety of expertise and cultural background, and who come together to discuss certain topics of particularly interest at these times and who try to find the solutions. I think it is not important to have technical expertise in each of the subjects, discussed at the G-20Y Summit. I think it's great to bring in your general expertise, your cultural background and a lot of common sense to come to some proposals which otherwise couldn’t be brought up.

Deposit Solutions
United States
Rolf T. Pasel

You have many business meetings during the year, you have many seminars where you learn something, but these are always in your industry with the same people talking about the same topics. So bringing together business leaders from different industries, geographies, different levels across the G20 – this is interesting. I mean you don't often have the opportunity to talk freely, open-mindly about these kind of topics and discuss the challenges and thoughts of G20 of today.
The Co-Chairing was an interesting experience, because in the end of the session you had a different perspective, different people to integrate. I thought about it before doing the Co-Chairing: one of the important things is not to lose somebody during the process.

Atos International
France
Frank Klaas

Arriving here I saw very fascinating group of people, acting together, discussing together and for me the first step towards understanding G-20Y was to see that this is like a market place where international global people can, without borders in thinking, be together and this is for me the most important aspect.
G-20Y for me stands for creating a global world of communication. We don`t have problems understanding each other and we are probably not creating results, but we are creating the right solutions to create results in the future.
My job was always communication; I’m probably an expert in crisis communications. I think G-20Y is a fascinating opportunity, where people can start to communicate and start to discuss with each other, have the opportunity to meet people from Europe, from Brazil, Australia or Russia, and Italy, and Spain and to share experiences. That is the fascinating world of G-20Y.
I’m a part of a huge financial organization. The whole financial world is today seen a lot in the media. We have here the opportunity to show that we are interested to have a dialog with a lot of people who want to change the world, to develop a new way of acting together. I think it’s very important not only for me but especially also for the industry to have this opportunity to be in an international dialog. I think it’s a great opportunity!

Deutsche Börse Group
Germany
Ananthakrishnan C. Bhoopathy

It's a really good opportunity for people from India because this is the second time we had a delegation to G-20Y Summit. I'm only one person but I hope that probably the message from us will be that more and more Indian participants should be here, because it gives real good chance to interact with people from many countries and to get to know all sorts of issues, global issues which are current and which need to be addressed in future.
The evening events were really enjoyable – especially the day before we had concert over here – it was really enjoyable.

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.
India
Manuel Ortigao

Having read the information that was sent to me I immediately concluded that it’s a very interesting organization with very ambitious objectives and for me to be part of the G-20Y Summit would be a challenge and I immediately accepted the invitation and I`m very happy to be here.
I expect that we will be able to put together a few recommendations to the G20 governments and that these recommendations will contribute to improving the working conditions and living conditions of citizens across the world.

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Ireland
Anton Kotov

I think we all, participants of G-20Y Summit, care about our planet and we are not indifferent to what is happening in the world.
The organization is fabulous. I can only say the words of compliments and I have been very impressed with both: the quality of participants and the way the event is organized.
I would be very delighted to continue and I definitely recommend this event to my colleagues in Schneider.

Schneider Electric
France
Valerie Diele-Braun

Having been nominated by DSM, I felt very honored to be able to attend this event as it had always been a dream for me to participate in such a venue. The G-20Y is for me the small version of the WEF and a learning ground for young executives to exchange thoughts and ideas, make connections and work on the future with other smart people. Having more and more burning issues in the world, such as the economic crisis, the change of demographics and the environmental shifts to name just a few, I think it’s fantastic to exchange views with a wide variety of people and to come up with suggestions that might help to shape our future positively.

Royal DSM
Netherlands
Ann Haugh

Thank you so much for a challenging, entertaining and worthwhile G-20Y Summit event. I thoroughly enjoyed the people, the atmosphere and the challenging opportunity presented to us.

Zurich Global Corporate
United Kingdom
Paolo Sarcinelli

It's pleasure for me to be invited for the G-20Y Summit. It's been interesting two and a half days of work. There was a lot of discussion. I think at the end we have been in a position to have a positive dialogue between different members of the Committee. And we have been able to find and put together a nice compromise on a number of controversial matters.

Intesa Sanpaolo
Italy
Alistar Rose

We are fortunate that we had participants across a multiple different countries across the world, from different types of organisations, from different sectors. We had a very interesting lively debated times. I think it was of a very high quality. I realized the depth of the conversation to be going on in the each of different committees. I think the whole concept behind the G-20Y is great.

Tesco Plc
United Kingdom
Kartini Sally

The working process was wonderful. Because we can see a lot of people from other countries: Brazil, from Malaysia, even from UK –a UK person works in China, he shared his experience in China and also from US. We share all information and all the practices of how to fight corruption in our country. We are very surprised that there is actually only one conference – United Nation Conference about fighting corruption and also UOECD conference against bribery. But I think not all the countries have ratified and implemented the conference, maybe we should give some views, some recommendations that all G20 countries and other countries can implement the United Nation Conference and UOECD conference against bribery. There have been discussions that fighting corruption, money laundering and also bribery and financial terrorism are linked together, so every country should be aware about these issues, this not only a problem of developed countries.
My president attended G-20Y Summit last year in Mexico, he asked senior level manager in Bank Mandiri, he shared his views of G20 of last years, so this is a good opportunity. We are going to send our senior manager to G-20Y Summit.
I think it's a very good opportunity for me to attend G-20Y Summit. This is first time I have attended an international Summit with different views and different subjects. I usually attend workshops or meetings about banking, just only banking but there are more issues we can discuss together.

Bank Mandiri
Indonesia
Caio Ramos

For me it was a big honor to come here because I think it's a good forum in which many countries in the world including the emerging countries can discuss and debate all the problems that they have and try to come up with some suggestions for the future.

Suape Port and Industrial Complex
Brazil
Mathieu Staniulis

I think G-20Y is such an important event in the world because as the young leaders we have to tell the world what we think and what we should accomplish in the next few years, because we have a responsibility to make things change and make a better world.
I worked on the “City of tomorrow” Committee – we had a broad issue to talk about, we tried to figure out what the city of tomorrow would be like and one of the things that I’m very happy to see in the result is that we talked about local communities – how we should design the cities of tomorrow with strong local communities where you can actually get involved as a citizen in your community to share services and actually go further with the challenges the city now faces.
The G-20Y events are nice because you actually have a lot of real work during the day it's so much fun to work with a bunch of people from all around the world with different backgrounds – this is very interesting. And then at night you can socialize, talk to those same people by the way with a more personal feel – this makes the entire experience, so much fun.
My favorite event was the opening Gala ceremony. Our company Desjardins, we got an award for our 3-year friendship with the G-20Y. So it was quite nice experience for us to receive that award.

Desjardins
Canada
Irina Bakhtina

There was no question of whether to participate or not actually when the invitation arrived because, for our company, it is incredibly important what exactly is on G20 agenda, not only this year, but in general. Over the last period of time Unilever was Co-Chairing the “Food security” Committee on the B20 initiatives in Rio with a quite valuable contribution, I hope, to the Communiqué which was produced by this committee. For us food security is not just an empty word and we really look to this agenda and how it’s being approach by the government on the G20 level.
What was specifically interesting about the Summit, actually, was the combination of participants which attended. The executive level of the biggest international corporations and some of the real big and significant Russian corporations, as soon as we are in Russia we are speaking about this, representatives of the international non-governmental organizations as well. I believe, this is an incredible group of people, I believe, team of people, who got together in St. Petersburg are really invested their time, not having to open e-mail and stuff which we left behind in office, but really invested our time, being focused on the agenda, which is with us today; and really trying to share the best ideas, many fresh ideas by the way, the most creative ideas I’ve ever heard, on those important areas of real G20 interests.
The program is really sophisticated: dance master-classes, the whole atmosphere of the classical music, combination of it and really amazing atmosphere of the city itself. It's the best season in the city. I believe it's something that going to be quite memorable.

Unilever Rus Ltd.
Russian Federation
Jose Joao Batista Stival Jr.

It`s important to be here: from the political part and also from the private part.
It's a unique experience to meet 20 countries partners and discuss the same themes. It’s shows that we are going to the same direction – we want to have the same result. For sure a discussion of the mid or long term will be useful for me and for Brazil and for all the countries.
About the organisation I just have to say that everything is perfect!

Cooperfrigu
Brazil
Raimund Kirchleitner

In my eyes, the G-20Y Summit is a unique opportunity to interact and communicate to motivated young ambitious c-executives; and to also interact with people from other business sectors.
I think it is super important to have the young generation of c-executives round one table at such aconference to exchange ideas,and to forward these ideas to those who are really on the steering-wheel regarding the future of our planet. I believe by havingworked out our papers we can somehow, let’s say contribute to the future and a better development of the world, whereby in our working group`s case especially regarding the financial world.
I believe it was quite useful, quite interesting, even if we were discussing theoretical topics mainly,but this is the purpose of this one. It was in any case also interconnected withreal life and with taking concrete action in the future. I was also able to extend my network, meet interesting people, which I will follow up with in the future. I found it quite useful, also to experience St. Petersburg, which is truly a nice place for this event. I also enjoyed very much the side events.
My favorite one was the yachting regatta – it was really good fun. We had perfect weather, even if we were lacking wind, so we were not really going that fast, but nevertheless it was good fun. Unfortunately we only got the second place – so we were the first loser. But nevertheless it was not really about competition – it was much more about fun and communication. For me it was alsoa nice opportunity to have my daily swim in the Gulf of Finland. I really enjoyed it very much.

St. Moritz Bäder AG
Switzerland
Alastair Grier

G-20Y benefitted both me personally and also RBS. The different cultures and points of views were interesting and refreshing. What came out most is that the challenges that our customers have in the UK are also the same challenges that customers have in many different countries from India to France. This gave me excellent insight into new solutions for our customers and also into how RBS could better support at a macro level, the UK economy.

The Royal Bank of Scotland
United Kingdom
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board of the G-20Y Association is an advisory body to the President. It provides advice on strategic and operational matters and links G-20Y Association to leading international institutions, governments, and business. The Advisory Board actively participates in the creation of the agenda for each G-20Y Summit.
Ksenia Khoruzhnikova
G-20Y Association Founder and President
Ksenia is now in charge of the G-20Y Association and G200 Association.
G-20Y Association brings together every year individuals in corporate executive leadership positions from the most prestigious leading companies in the world, G20 countries and their sectors for the annual G-20Y Summits (2010, in Toronto, 2011, in Paris, 2012 in Mexico City, 2013 in Saint- Petersburg, 2014 in Montreux, 2015 in Evian, 2016 in St.Moritz, 2017-2020 in Evian). The unique concept of the event was created in 2009 by Ksenia.
G200 Association brings together every year young leaders, students, academics, professors, members of parliaments under 45 years old, entrepreneurs, young professionals and civil society leaders from 200 countries for the G200 Youth Forum. The unique concept of the event was created in 2005 by Ksenia Khoruzhnikova. The concept was realized as the G8 Youth Summit in 2006 in Saint-Petersburg and continued in subsequent years transformed first into the G20 Youth Forum and finally the G200 Youth Forum (in Berlin, 2007, in Tokyo, 2008, in Milan, 2009, in Vancouver, 2010, in Paris, in 2011 and in Washington, 2012, in Saint-Petersburg, 2013, in Garmisch Partenkirchen, 2014, 2015, 2016 and in Dubai, 2017).
During 18 years of professional life Ksenia gained invaluable international experience regarding global emerging political and economic issues as well as intercultural and management skills. Ksenia is the owner of several companies providing different professional services on an international scale. Ksenia is an artist and has started a fashion house business. Ksenia is a Fellow of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank “Leaders of Tomorrow” Program. She holds a master’s degree from the School of International Relations, Saint-Petersburg State University.
Dr. Jacques Bughin
CEO at MachaonAdvisory; Senior Advisor FortinoCapital,
Venture Partner Antler;
Former Director, McKinsey Global Institute, and Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Dr. Jacques Bughin is a CEO and owner at MachaonAdvisory. Jacques is currently teaching business strategy At Solvay Business School, a consultant for the United Nations regarding scaling digital ventures as well as an investor and board member in a variety of companies and ventures including the Portulans Institute ( Washington DC), Fortino, Antler and Marquard Media . By 2019 ended he retired after 28 years as a senior partner of McKinsey & Company and acted as director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the firm’s business and economics research arm.
He is very knowledgeable in TMT, High-Tech , Strategy & Corporate Finance and has experience with more than 200 clients
Jacques has led numerous research efforts on global economic trends such as globalization, productivity and inclusive growth, as well as on the impact, opportunities, and challenges of technology including big data, the future of work and skills, and AI. He has authored 50+ articles published in outkets such as Harvard Business Review, and Sloan Management Review, as well as in academic journals and is quoted regularly in leading international media.
Dr. Holger Erchinger
Partner, KPMG, New York
Dr. Holger Erchinger is an Audit partner with KPMG LLP in New York and the Partner in Charge of the U.S. Germany Corridor within KPMG’s International Business Corridors. He is responsible for coordinating and supporting cross-functional inbound and outbound corridor revenue and business activities related to KPMG’s Audit, Advisory, and Tax service offerings.
Holger has been with KPMG for 23 years working in various KPMG offices in the United States and in Germany providing audit and audit-related services related to capital market transactions including IPOs and debt offerings, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, accounting conversion and advisory services, and SEC filings and reporting.
Holger also serves on the Advisory Board of the International Association for Accounting and Education and Research and the German Banking Institute and speaks on a regular basis at universities and conferences. Holger is a U.S. Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of New York and State of Colorado as well as a German Certified Public Accountant. He studied business administration and earned a PhD degree in economics.
Dr. Yoshihiro Kawai
Chair, OECD Insurance and Private Pensions Committee
Former Secretary General, International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS),
Member of Financial Stability Board (FSB)
Dr. Yoshihiro Kawai is Chair of OECD Insurance and Private Pensions Committee. Previously he held the position of Secretary General of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS). He joined the IAIS in 1998 as Deputy Secretary General and has been instrumental in the fast and dynamic growth of the Association. As part of his IAIS duties, Dr. Kawai was also an active member of the Financial Stability Board.
Dr. Kawai’s professional career began with Tokio Marine and Fire Insurance Co and the Ministry of Labour, Tokyo. He later served on the Secretariat for the OECD Insurance Committee in Paris for 4 years. From 1995 until 1998, he acted as Advisor to the Minister of Finance and the President of the Insurance Supervisory Authority in Warsaw.
Dr. Kawai earned his PhD in 2000 from City University, London, with his thesis on The reform of insurance supervisory systems for economies in transition. His PhD was preceded by a BA in Education and Sociology from the University of Tokyo and a MBA with a specialisation in Economics and Finance from INSEAD.
Barbara Kreissler
Director, B2G Professional Lighting, Global Public & Government Affairs
Signify
Barbara Kreissler joined Philips Lighting, Eindhoven, Netherlands, in 2016 in the Public and Government Affairs department, responsible for public-private partnerships in order to enable and facilitate the transition of cities, municipalities and regions to energy efficient, sustainable LED lighting solutions.
Before that, Barbara worked at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna, Austria, where she held a variety of global positions ranging from Head of Business Partnerships Group to external relations to project management. In her most recent role, Barbara positioned UNIDO to foster private sector collaboration and to upscale the organization’s private sector portfolio.
Barbara started her professional career as project manager at Deloitte in Brussels, Belgium. She holds a Master’s degree from Georgetown University in International Affairs and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Tufts University.
Jean-Luc Larribau
G-20Y Association Spokesperson
Partner - Avocat à la Cour, Le 16 – Law
Jean-Luc is currently a Partner - Avocat à la Cour at Le 16 – Law. Before that he acted as Dispute Resolution Lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Paris.
Jean-Luc has experience in complex contractual disputes both in arbitration and before French Courts, including claims management and expert determination.
A graduate of the Master’s degree in Economic Law at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po Paris), Jean-Luc also holds a Master’s degree of English and North-American business law from Université de Paris I — Panthéon-Sorbonne and a double undergraduate degree in English and French law from Université de Paris I — Panthéon-Sorbonne and King' s College, London.
A skilled and active member in his business community, he participated in the G-20Y Summit 2010 in Toronto where he proved to be a leading mind and became Member of the G-20Y Association.
Dr. Dirk Lubig
Head of China GTB, Head of Greater China CCM, Corporate Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank
Dr. Dirk Lubig is now Head of China GTB, Head of Greater China CCM, Corporate Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank.
Prior to that role Dirk was Managing Director at Deutsche Bank in Group Strategy (AfK).
Dirk was responsible for advising the bank's senior management on defining and executing the Bank’s strategy. He leaded a strategy team spread across Frankfurt, London, New York and Singapore.
In his daily work in corporate strategy, he tackles the Bank’s response to global economic and financial challenges. Before Dirk joined Deutsche Bank he was a Partner at Bain & Company.
He was one of the youngest Partner's in the German system. Dirk holds a MBA in Business Administration from the University of Cologne and has a PhD in Ecomomics. His passion outside the bank is Kitesurfing, Skiing and Sailing.
Nicola Melchiotti
Country Manager Argentina, Enel Group
Nicola is now Enel's Group Country Manager for Argentina. Previously he was in charge of European Public Affairs and Regulation for Enel Group, working closely with European institutions and stakeholders in Brussels on the transformation of energy markets in the region.
From 2009 to 2016 he was Area Manager in Mexico and Central America, where he led the growth of Enel from a small player to a regional leader. Prior to joining Enel in 2007, Mr. Melchiotti worked for McKinsey as management consultant.
He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and Masters in Engineering from Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (in France) and Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Gregor Pilgram
G-20Y Association Advisory Board Member
G-20Y Innovative Insurance and Insurtech Committee Term Chair
Chief Executive Officer Austria
Generali
As of 1 May 2020 Gregor became Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Generali Versicherung as well as Generali Group’s Country Manager in Austria. Before taking these functions, Gregor held a position of Chief Financial Officer of Generali CEE Holding B.V. for seven years.Gregor Pilgram, who graduated from Vienna Economic University with a degree in Business Administration, has been working for the Generali Group in various international functions since 1999. In 2004 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Generali Slovenia and took over as chairman in 2008. Since then he has shared responsibility for the activities in Croatia. He was awarded a “Young Managers of the Year 2010” award by Slovene Managers’ Association for shaping the Slovene insurance market and bringing Generali in Slovenia to become one of the market leaders.
The G-20Y Association would like to express its highest appreciation to the former members of the Advisory Board for their invaluable contribution in shaping our organization for the past years to what it is today.
Laxman Narasimhan
Former G-20Y Association Advisory Board Co-Chair
CEO
Reckitt Benckiser
Laxman is a CEO of Reckitt Benckiser, plc. Previously Global Chief Commercial Officer, PepsiCo, Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo Latin America, Europe and SubSaharan Africa since July 2017. CEO, PepsiCo Latin America from 2014- 2017.
Previously served as the Senior Vice President and CFO of PepsiCo Americas Foods. Prior to PepsiCo, Senior Partner at McKinsey. Worked for 19 years and held several positions around the world. Trustee of the Brookings Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Laxman holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, University of Pune, India. He has an MA in German and International Studies from The Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He has an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania where he was designated a Palmer Scholar.
Michael Miebach
Former G-20Y Association Advisory Board Member
President and CEO
Masterсard
President and CEO
Michael Miebach, President of Mastercard, is responsible for overseeing the sales, marketing, products, services, and technology organizations for the company. The Mastercard Board elected Michael to succeed Ajay Banga as Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2021.
For 50 years, Mastercard has been transforming how the world pays and gets paid with technology and expertise that make payments safer, simpler and more secure.
Mr. Miebach brings a wealth of global experience in payment technologies, retail and corporate banking to his role. He previously headed Masterсard’s operations across the Middle East and Africa. Before joining Masterсard, he held senior positions at Barclays Bank and Citibank across Europe, Turkey, Africa and the Middle East.
A passionate advocate of financial inclusion, Mr. Miebach was a member of the G-20Y Association Advisory Board. He also sits on the Accion board of directors, sharing his insight and knowledge with the organization as it works to support the two billion adults across the world lacking access to formal financial services.
Mr. Miebach holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Passau in Germany and lives with his wife and two children in New York.
Patrick Lahaie
Former G-20Y Association Advisory Board Member
Senior Partner McKinsey & Company
Patrick is the managing partner of McKinsey & Compagny’s Montréal location and the leader and co-founder of McKinsey's RTS group in Canada. In this capacity, he helps distressed companies and under performing business units drive rapid performance improvement, from acute crisis management to long-term recovery.
More broadly, Patrick helps industrial companies turnaround performance with a focus on operations, purchasing and supply management and capital productivity initiatives. He has led performance turnarounds for clients in the metals and mining, aerospace manufacturing, automotive and assembly, and pulp and paper sectors. The work has taken him beyond North America to Europe, Singapore and Australia—and to China, where he lived from 2006 to 2007. While working in China, he helped deepen McKinsey's expertise in sourcing from low-cost countries.
A member of l'Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ), Patrick is a Six Sigma Black Belt and holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from École Polytechnique de Montréal as well as an MBA from INSEAD. He also sits on the executive committee of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra’s board of directors.
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