Trade & Investment

Ajay Banga is executive chairman of the board of directors of Mastercard. He moved into this role following 11 years as the company’s president and chief executive officer. Ajay is a co-founder of The Cyber Readiness Institute, chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce and a trustee of the United States Council for International Business. Ajay is a founding trustee of the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum, a member of the U.S.-India CEO Forum and is chairman emeritus of the American India Foundation. He served as a member of President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. He is a past member of the U.S. President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. He was awarded the Padma Shri Award by the President of India in 2016, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2019 and the Business Council for International Understanding’s Global Leadership Award. He is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and was awarded the Foreign Policy Association Medal in 2012. Ajay is a member of the board of overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College. In addition, Ajay serves as a director of Dow Inc. and is a member of its compensation and governance committees. Prior to Mastercard, Ajay served as chief executive officer of Citigroup Asia Pacific. During his career at Citigroup, he held a variety of senior management roles in the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He also oversaw the company’s efforts in microfinance. Ajay began his career at Nestlé, India, where for 13 years he worked on assignments spanning sales, marketing and general management. He also spent two years with PepsiCo, where he was instrumental in launching its fast food franchises in India as the economy liberalized. He is a graduate of Delhi University and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Born in 1967 in Ankara, Levent Çakıroğlu graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences, Business Administration Department and received his master’s degree from University of Illinois. He started his career as an Assistant Auditor at the Ministry of Finance in 1988, where he worked as a Senior Auditor between 1991 and 1997. He was appointed as Assistant Manager of Financial Crimes Investigation Board between 1997 and 1998, meanwhile he taught as Part Time Instructor at Bilkent University. Çakıroğlu, joined Koç Group in 1998 as Koç Holding Financial Group Coordinator. He was the General Manager of Koçtaş between 2002- 2007 and the CEO of Migros between 2007- 2008. He was appointed as the CEO of Arçelik in 2008, and also served as the President of Koç Holding Durable Goods Group from 2010. Çakıroğlu was appointed as the CEO of Koç Holding A.Ş. in April 2015. He currently serves as the CEO and Board Member of Koç Holding A.Ş. since April 2016.

YU Jianlong, born in Beijing, graduated from Capital Normal University with a B.A. of British and American Literature in 1986. Later, he graduated from Peking University (PKU) as a Master of Inter-Cultural Communications, and from the University of International Business and Economics as a PhD of International Economic Law. Dr. YU joined China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) in 1988. He worked as Deputy Director General of International Relations Department from 1998 to 2004 and Director General of Economic Information Department from 2004 to 2006. In 2006, he was appointed as Vice Chairman and Secretary General of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and Vice Chairman of China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC). Since March 2015, Dr. YU has been serving as Secretary General of China Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC).He has been serving as Vice Chairman of World Chambers Federation (WCF) of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) since January, 2019.

As Owner and Chief Executive Officer of the Sintesa Group (www.sintesagroup.com), Shinta is responsible for the Management and Expansion of the Group’s business interests in Indonesia. The Sintesa Group is an Indonesian group with 16 subsidiaries, which operate in the Property, Energy, Industrial Products, and Consumer Products. As a businesswoman, Shinta also involves in numerous business and social activities, including as the Vice Chairwoman of Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN Indonesia) and Employers’ Association of Indonesia (APINDO), Executive Board of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), President of Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development (IBCSD), as well as founder of Indonesia Business Coalition for Women Empowerment (IBCWE) and Angel Investment Network Indonesia (ANGIN), and the Member of APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Indonesia. She is also has chosen by the United Nations as one of 30 global corporate leader to join the Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD Alliance). Shinta graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University New York in 1989 and Executive Education at Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 2002. As part of her achievement, she received awards amongst others from FORBES Asia’s 50 Powerful Businesswomen (2012, 2013, & 2016), 30 Best CEOs by Business Indonesia Award in 2015, in 2017, she was decorated as the Commander of the Polar Star by the King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and the Commander of the Order of Leopold of Belgium. And in 2019, she was awarded as Woman Entrepreneur of the Year at the Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Award (ACES Award)

Kubota Masakazu is Director General of Keidanren since June 2014. He started his career at Keidanren in April 1976 at International Economic Affairs Department. During his carrier at Keidanren for more than forty years, he has held various senior positions in the policy fields such as international economic affairs, economic policy, and industrial policy. From April 1989 to March 1992, he was assigned to Special Assistant at the Japanese Embassy in the United States. He was promoted to Managing Director in May 2006 and Senior Managing Director in May 2009. He attended the Tokyo University (Department of Economics) and studied at Singapore National University.

Paolo Rocca is the CEO of the Techint Group, that comprises Tenaris, Ternium, Tecpetrol, and Techint E&C. Mr. Rocca is Chairman and CEO of Tenaris [TS], a leading global manufacturer and supplier of steel tubes and related services for the world’s energy industry as well as other industrial applications. The company is listed on the New York, Italian, and Mexican stock exchanges. It has an integrated worldwide network of steel pipe manufacturing, finishing, research, and service facilities, with industrial operations in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and a direct presence in most major oil and gas markets. M. Rocca is also Chairman of Ternium [TX], one of the leading steel companies in Latin America, manufacturing and processing a wide range of flat and long steel products. Its main operations are in Mexico and Argentina. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Tecpetrol is an Oil & Gas exploration and production company operating in Latin America, that also promotes and manages natural gas transmission and distribution networks.
Techint E&C provides worldwide engineering, procurement, construction, operation, and management services for high complexity and large-scale projects. Mr. Rocca is also member of the Executive Committee of the World Steel Association and of the International Council of J. P. Morgan Chase. Born in Milan in 1952, Paolo Rocca graduated in Political Science from the University of Milan. In 1985 he obtained his PMD (Program for Management Development) at Harvard University.

Ingrid Sinclair is the Global President of Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS). Her oversight covers all operational and revenue responsibilities for recycling services offered by the company. Ingrid routinely advocates for expanding recycling initiatives through innovation, fair and consistent trade practices and responsibly managing transboundary movement of e-waste. Ingrid’s international experience in compliance and her extensive recycling expertise has qualified her as a contributor to both the G7 (France – 2019) as well as the International E-Waste Day (India – 2020) discussing such important topics as sustainable e-waste management and enabling the circular economy. Throughout her career, Ingrid has spearheaded innovation in the electronics recycling industry. As part of the executive leadership team of Sims Limited, she helped define the organization’s purpose, to create a world without waste to preserve our planet. In recent years, as President of SLS, she has championed a closed loop plastic project with Hewlett Packard Inc. (HPI). This project represents a major step forward in sustainable electronics recycling, enabling HPI to recover plastic from recycled printers and directly reuse the recovered material to manufacture new printers. Ingrid was appointed to the position of Global President of Sims Lifecycle Services in 2019. She was the first woman selected as a divisional president of any of the Sims’ divisions. Ingrid has been in the electronics recycling industry for over 20 years, starting her career in this field as a process engineer at the Glencore Canada (formerly Noranda) copper and precious metal refinery in Montreal, Quebec. In addition to being trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt, Ingrid has a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Ottawa and a Master of Business Administration from Concordia University. Ingrid enjoys dual citizenship in the U.S. and Canada and is fluent in French.

Livio started his career as a journalist for almost ten years, covering in Middle East and Iraq, afterwards shifting his focus to international and domestic, political and economic affairs. His last assignment was as economic editor in chief of Adnkronos, the largest private wire service in Italy. He also had experience, heading the organization of the National Basketball Association tournament in the Italian capital. He joined Philip Morris International in 1998 where he assumed leadership and management roles in sales, marketing, and corporate affairs at the market, regional and global levels including Italy, Slovakia, European Union, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and Duty Free. Since March 2017, Livio was appointed Vice President for Global Partnerships and Cooperation, and recently assumed the role of Vice President for Global Public Affairs, fully focusing on the new vision of building the future of the company without cigarettes. In this role, he leads PMI’s pioneering efforts to rebuild trust with global institutional stakeholders through concrete and transparent commitments, while ensuring that regions across 180 markets around the world are coordinated in their approaches to scale up positive impact. Livio was born in Rome, with a law degree from Universita’ di Roma La Sapienza. He has three children, Pietro, Nina and Alessandra.