Amnah Ajmal

Amnah Ajmal is the Executive Vice President of Market Development, EEMEA at Mastercard. In this role, she leads the P&L across multiple business verticals including merchants, telcos, governments, fintechs and digital players in 80 markets. In addition, she also heads the strategy, pricing, analytics and M&A function for the region. Prior to this role Amnah led the North America product and innovation organisation, based out of the US, creating sustainable, competitive differentiation for Mastercard and its customers by delivering digitally-integrated consumer experiences across consumer and commercial products. 

Prior to joining Mastercard, Amnah was CEO for Standard Chartered Consumer Bank Malaysia. She was also responsible for retail banking strategy for Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan in a global role based out of Singapore. Prior to Standard Chartered, Amnah worked at Citigroup in the UAE, Egypt, the UK and Poland. She held a number of leadership positions at Citigroup including Asset Business Head for Poland, taking  responsibility for the full range of consumer asset products, innovation and distribution including credit cards, co-brands, personal loans and mortgages. 

Amnah was honoured to be listed in: Forbes Middle East’s 100 Most Powerful Businesswomen 2024; the Top 100 Women in Fintech 2021 by IBM and FinTech Magazine; the Top 25 Women Leaders in Financial Technology by the Financial Technology Report US 2019 and 2020; and the Top 100 Women in Fintech 2019 by Lattice80. She also holds the honour of being in the US list of the Top 10 Women in Fintech by FinTech Magazine in 2020.

Amnah is passionate about social empowerment for women and gender equity. She holds a Master’s degree from London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE).