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With over two decades as a social impact strategist and technology innovator, Salah Goss currently serves as Senior Vice President at Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth where she oversees a grant portfolio that has delivered over $18 billion in affordable capital to small businesses. Throughout her extensive career at the intersection of social impact and technology, Goss has been widely recognized for her contributions to global financial inclusion initiatives across the U.S., Africa, and Southeast Asia.  

Goss is an Aspen Institute Finance Leaders Fellow, a World Economic Forum Schwab Foundation Fellow, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident. She is also on the Board of Root Capital, the Advisory Council of Heartland Forward, Blavity Inc.’s AfroTech Advisory Board, and Common Threads’ National Board. Goss holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and affairs from Johns Hopkins University, and a master’s degree in international development and international economics from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS).