Ailish Campbell

Ailish Campbell, EVP, Public Sector
Ailish Campbell is Executive Vice President, Public Sector at Mastercard. In this role, Ailish leads Mastercard’s public sector strategy for sales to governments and publicly-owned entities worldwide. Ailish and her global team work to modernise public sector service delivery across diverse segments from social benefits payments to transit and tourism, ensuring secure transactions and financial inclusion.

Ailish brings a distinguished track record in international trade and diplomacy to Mastercard, most recently serving as Ambassador of Canada to the European Union from 2020 to 2025, where she led the expansion of trade, digital and defense and security cooperation. Previously, she was Canada’s Chief Trade Commissioner and an assistant deputy minister at Global Affairs Canada and Finance Canada. She also helped lead international supply chain resilience efforts during the covid-19 pandemic to deliver vaccines and therapies to citizens.

Ailish has been a lecturer at the University of Oxford, where she earned her doctorate. She is also a member of the Aspen Institute Finance Leaders Fellowship and is a co-founder of the Aspen Institute's Technology Leaders Initiative.