Payal Dalal
Payal currently serves as the Executive Vice President, Global Programs at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. She joined the Center in April 2018, oversees the Center’s philanthropic investments around the globe, manages the Center’s programmatic team across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the United States, directs the Center’s Thought Leadership team which includes research, insights and learning and runs the Center’s inclusive innovation team.
Previously, she was Global Head of Community Programs for Standard Chartered Bank. In this capacity, she designed the Bank’s new community investment strategy and oversaw all programs related to education, girls’ empowerment, global health, emergency response, and disaster relief. Payal joined Standard Chartered in July 2008 as the Head of Public Affairs for the Americas.
With a professional background in international philanthropy and politics, Payal has worked for a wide range of public sector organizations including the World Affairs Council, the Global Philanthropy Forum and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Payal also worked on foreign policy for the Office of President William J. Clinton. Payal also has extensive experience in financial services as well. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, she worked on the launch of the AT&T Universal Savings and Reward Card for Citi.
Payal currently serves as a trustee for Women Win, Steering Board member for RISE and a member of the Programs and Strategy Committee for CAREUSA. In 2020, she was appointed to the Advisory Group for the WE EMPOWER G-7 program of UN Women and the Working Group on Financial Health of the UN Secretary General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development. She’s held official positions during the G20 Indonesia, India, Brazil presidencies and currently serves on a taskforce for the G20 South Africa presidency in 2025. She also served as a program advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative between 2014-2016.
A Texas native, Payal has a BA with honors from Stanford University and an MBA and an MPA from New York University.
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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.
