Shuba Chandran

Vice President Asia Pacific, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Subhashini (Shuba) Chandran oversees the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth's investments and initiatives across Asia Pacific, covering programs, data and insights, strategic engagement, and partnerships. She has championed inclusive growth for 25 years focusing on small businesses and women-led enterprises in global value chains, sustainable livelihood solutions, job creation, business models to promote shared prosperity and catalyzing multi-stakeholder partnerships in Africa and Asia. She is a graduate of the Yale World Fellows program and Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence, and alum of the Young Global Leaders program of the World Economic Forum.

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Elevandi Insights

Roundtable 3

Invite-Only

Tue,14 Nov | 03:30PM - 05:00PM

(Invite-Only) Advancement of financing and investment for digital inclusion

Digitising Inclusion

IFC, WEF, and MAS are collaborating to progress digital inclusion through innovative financing products. This initiative will advance consistent and equal access to digital information, services, and products to benefit underserved individuals, communities, and businesses, particularly Micro Small and Medium Businesses (MSMEs). The tri-party partnership will create a digital inclusion framework to guide how they work with Asian financial ecosystems to raise financing and/or investments.

During this session, an IFC leader will introduce the new digital inclusion investment products and sign a ceremonial MOU with IFC and MAS. The panel will progress to discussing the financing implications of digital inclusion and then products or platforms that may effect digital inclusion.