October 28, 2010, MIT’s Legatum Convergence Conference

Cambridge, MA, 8:30 am Reeta Roy, President & CEO, The MasterCard Foundation will be participating in the panel: Foundations Funding Entrepreneurs – How Foundations can Contribute to Innovations that Help Bottom Up Entrepreneurial Efforts.

October 27, 2010, Aga Khan Foundation: Savings Groups Learning Workshop

Ottawa, ON, As part of our program with Aga Khan Foundation, we are supporting their Savings Groups Learning Workshop at which several of our partners will also be participating. Reeta Roy, President & CEO, The MasterCard Foundation is providing opening remarks.   

September 22, 2010, Clinton Global Initiative, Youth Unemployment: The Next Great Global Challenge

New York, NY, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Reeta Roy, President & CEO of The MasterCard Foundation will be a panelist on Youth Unemployment: The Next Great Global Challenge with António Guterres, Former Prime Minister, Portuguese Republic; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR; Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State; Nkululeko Yeni, Student, African Leadership Academy.

Meredith Lee, Manager, Youth Learning Program, The Mastercard Foundation is the Moderator for the Action Network: Post-Conflict Education session on September 23, 2010 at 12:00 pm. With over half of the worlds’ out-of-school children residing in conflict-affected environments, CGI members have joined forces to address educational needs in such settings.

September 20, 2010, Decent Work Forum: Side-Event for the Millennium Development Goals Summit  (International Labor Organization)

NY, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Reeta Roy, President & CEO of The MasterCard Foundation will be participating in the Decent Work Forum as a panelist on “Building Partnerships for Development through Decent Work”. Chaired by David Arkless, President of Corporate and Government Affairs at Manpower, this panel will explore the importance of partnerships in achieving the MDGs as well as the impact of the Decent Work Agenda. It will examine achievements, challenges as well as opportunities for stakeholders to bring existing activities to scale and integrate decent work programs into broader MDG planning for the 2010-2015 period.

September 14, 2010, Making Cents International's Global Youth Enterprise & Livelihoods Development Conference

Washington, D.C. 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Reeta Roy, President & CEO, The MasterCard Foundation will be a panelist at the opening session: Plenary Panel of Visionaries - with Moderator Ms. Fiona Macaulay, Founder and President, Making Cents International (USA), Mr. Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank (USA), Dr. Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (USA) Dr. Diana Wells, President, Ashoka (USA).

Also on September 15, 1:00 - 2:30 pm, Jennifer Singer, Program Manager, Microfinance, The MasterCard Foundation is a panelist on Plenary Panel: How Do We Take Youth-Inclusive Financial Services to Scale? And on September 16th at 4:15 - 5:30 pm, Ms. Meredith Lee, Program Manager, Youth Learning, The MasterCard Foundation is a panelist on Plenary Panel: How Can You Partner with Funders?

June 16, 2010, The G(irls) 20 Summit

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm Reeta Roy, President and CEO, The MasterCard Foundation, is presenting – The Economic Prowess of Girls & Women with Q&A to follow.

June 9, 2010, Toronto, ON The MasterCard Foundation is a participant at the Keynote - "Mobile Takeover: How cell phones are leading to economic and democratic progress"

Featuring Professor Iqbal Quadir Founder and Director of The Legatum Center, MIT and Grameen Phone.
where: MaRS - Net Change, 101 College St, Toronto reception 5:00 keynote 6:00 pm. The focus is on how mobile phone technology can help create new business and bring economic and democratic progress closer in reach, especially in a context of global threats like climate change, pandemics, food and water shortages.

June 2-5, 2010, Leksand, Sweden, The 5th Global YES Summit - Rework the World

Reeta Roy, President and CEO The MasterCard Foundation, will be a panelist June 3rd, 10:00 am at the Plenary Session, Creating New Jobs – Openings: Where are the opportunities? Moderated by: Ismail Serageldin (Director, Bibliotheca Alexandria) with other panelists: Hafsat Abiola-Costello (Founder, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), Nigeria) and Karen Tse (CEO, International Bridges to Justice, Switzerland)

May 6, 2010, Washington, D.C., New America Foundation - Forum: Youth Savings Accounts The Youth Development and Financial Inclusion Nexus?

Reeta Roy, President and CEO, The MasterCard Foundation, 12:45 to 1:15 - Lunch Keynote Address

April 19 - 21, 2010, Redwood City, California, GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY FORUM - Defy Barriers, Effect Change: Access to Health, Food and Water

Reeta Roy, President and CEO, The MasterCard Foundation, will be a panelist on April 21, 11:15 am - Enterprise: Microfinance - Social Return vs. Financial Returns