2025 ASEAN Inclusive Growth Summit
Driving impact through bold leadership
This isn't just another event; it's a space where visionary leaders, influential voices, and frontline practitioners come together to identify opportunities, unlock potential, and cultivate groundbreaking new perspectives. Engage with essential thinking and exclusive insights—the kind of conversations you won't find anywhere else. Make connections that count - turning ideas into tangible impact.
Featured Topics
Our impact agenda
We've crafted this year's program to bring you the in-depth discussions, provocative thinking, and critical knowledge you need to lead effectively in the dynamic social impact sector. We will deep-dive into a shared vision for progress across the ASEAN region and beyond. With a focus on key themes including sustainable and resilient growth, innovative public-private partnerships, digital transformation, and collaborative AI governance, while recognizing SMEs as drivers of inclusive growth and innovation.
Stronger together: closing the cyber divide
Shifting gears: Building a sustainable mobility ecosystem
Featured Speakers
Hear from purpose-driven leaders
Experience robust and thoughtful discussions on the most important inclusive growth topics from the experts themselves.
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Global Inclusive Growth Summit
2025 highlights
In case you missed it, watch the highlights of the summit showcasing some of the best discussions from visionary leaders on inclusive growth. See thought leaders share groundbreaking ideas and initiatives aimed at fostering economic development that leaves no one behind.
Summit Rewind
The 2025 summit's most memorable moments
In a turbulent economic, environmental, and human context, the Global Inclusive Growth Summit enables private sector, social impact, and government leaders to partner in new ways on meaningful solutions and approaches.
Snapshots
Revisit the global summit
Experience the summit through our official photographs of the most memorable and important moments, and celebrate the minds that champion growth all over the world.
Featured Session
A conversation with Trevor Noah and Melinda French Gates
Top Quotes
Insightful leaders, in their own words
“We are now actors in ecosystems … [and] value chains. We populate ecosystems and … value chains as a single business unit, so the only way to complete an ecosystem is collaborations and partnerships.”
“For us, the model has been an interesting combination of trust and technology, and so high tech and high touch is really the alchemy at Grameen.”
“Leadership now means seeing the future clearly and showing it in a compelling fashion. By fully embracing visual AI, leaders will unlock superhuman momentum for themselves, for their teams, for their companies, and for the world.”
“At the end of the day, whoever has the most data wins in the age of AI.”
“We’ve got to foster collaboration, cross-border collaboration, cross-sector collaboration, and we’ve got to make sure that everyone is included.”
“There’s probably been no more dynamic time in development policy than we’re seeing right now.”
“This is a place where big, bold ideas are born, and you are the ones that will take them forward.”
“When you break it down into these digestible ideas, you make it available and [then] you insert trust — that’s where the magic of crypto comes to life.”
“If you don’t have access to high-speed internet, you simply can’t compete. It is the number one economic challenge for many of these rural locations. If you look back at which rural areas received high speed internet access first, they have done much better than others when adjusting for those factors.”
“One of the biggest problems with the circular economy is people assume it’s about waste and trash, but actually, it’s about upstream design, and how do we build it into the design of our products and systems, and how we think, our mindsets. This is where AI is really useful, right now, in retraining our workforce.”
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Learn more about our Global Inclusive Growth partnerships
In partnership with
The Center for Inclusive Growth and the ASEAN Business Advisory Council present
The ASEAN Inclusive Growth Summit aims to inspire and innovate. Hosted by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth in partnership with the ASEAN Business Advisory Council — Malaysia, the Summit advances real solutions to today’s most pressing challenges through collaboration and candid conversation among entrepreneurs, innovators, policymakers and emerging changemakers.
The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth advances equitable and sustainable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world. The Center leverages the company’s core assets and competencies, including data insights, expertise and technology, while administering the philanthropic Mastercard Impact Fund, to produce independent research, scale global programs and empower a community of thinkers, leaders and doers on the front lines of inclusive growth.
ASEAN-BAC Malaysia is an integral chapter of the regional ASEAN-BAC with regular participation in all Council Meetings and Consultations with ASEAN Leaders. Represented by Chairman Tan Sri Nazir Razak alongside Council Members Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Mr. Lim Chern Yuan, ASEAN-BAC Malaysia is proud to take the lead in private sector policy initiatives and programs in support of Malaysia’s Chairmanship vision and Priority Economic Deliverables (PEDs) as Malaysia assumes the ASEAN Chairmanship in 2025.
