2025 Global Inclusive Growth Summit
Let's grow together
This annual event hosted by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth is where influential voices come together to reframe challenges and unlock new approaches. It’s about bringing together the smartest thinkers and leaders who are shaping our future. Conversations you won’t find on a stage anywhere else. And the kind of connections that move ideas into action.
Featured Topics
Our growth agenda
This year’s program is designed to go deep and bring you the topics you need to know as leaders in this space. From new thinking on financial health and the role of innovation, effective philanthropy, digital transformation and trust in the morning, to protecting individuals and small business from cyber threats, growth opportunities of the circular economy, and how AI is transforming organizations in the afternoon.
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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Summit 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 summit's most memorable moments
In a turbulent economic, environmental, and human context, the Summit enables private sector, social impact, and government leaders to partner in new ways on meaningful solutions and approaches.
Snapshots
Celebrating champions of inclusive growth
Experience the summit through our official photographs of the most memorable and important moments, and celebrate the minds that champion inclusive growth all over the world.
Featured Session
A Conversation with Trevor Noah and Melinda French Gates
An economy that appreciates women's and men's contributions equally gains a wider range of ideas, expertise and experience. In this discussion, Trevor Noah and Melinda Gates will envision a society where everyone can both contribute and benefit.
Top Quotes
Insights from inclusive growth 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.”
In partnership with
The Center for Inclusive Growth and Devex present
The Global Inclusive Growth Summit aims to inspire and innovate. Hosted by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and Devex, 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.
Devex is the world’s leading independent news organization covering global development. Devex journalists deliver insider reporting from front lines of the fight to achieve the SDGs – driving the most important debates, providing the most critical analysis, and backing it all up with the events, career information, and funding opportunities professionals require. To keep up to date with the must-read global development coverage, join their global community.
