Gargee Ghosh
Gargee Ghosh is an executive leader with extensive global development and philanthropy experience. She is currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Business & Government, where she leads research and studies on the policy and finance challenges of expanding access to new technologies for inclusive growth. She is a Senior Advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, and is a Board Member of the Institute of Tropical Medicine based in Antwerp, Belgium and the Center for Global Development located in Washington, D.C.
Gargee has worked at McKinsey, Google.org, the Center for Global Development, and most recently served as President of Global Policy at the Gates Foundation. She is best known for leading policy and advocacy teams to introduce complex new health, agriculture and digital innovations globally, and for her work bringing public, philanthropic and private capital together to advance innovative finance for inclusive growth. She has overseen multi-million dollar strategic grant portfolios, advised CEOs and governing boards on navigating global political and economic affairs, and built cross-sector coalitions to drive inclusive growth impact.
Gargee holds graduate degrees in economics and international affairs and currently lives in Washington, D.C.
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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.
