About Ellen Jackowski

Ellen Jackowski has recently joined Mastercard as Chief Sustainability Officer to further integrate ESG into the heart of the company and activate their global network of partners, customers, and consumers to create a more inclusive and sustainable world. Previously, she led a global team that oversaw HP's Sustainable Impact strategy, governance, and programs that focused on the most defining and urgent issues of our time that support Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) industry imperatives: Climate Action, Human Rights, and Digital Equity. Her team was instrumental in embedding Sustainable Impact at the core of HP’s 2030 vision and strategy, including setting, measuring, and reporting some of the most comprehensive goals in the technology industry. She led the HP Sustainable Impact Program Management Office, responsible for creating an integrated operating structure to drive progress against HP’s aggressive 2030 agenda. She also served as the Executive Director of the HP Foundation. Under her leadership, HP was named America’s Most Responsible Company by Newsweek for the third consecutive year, was the first and only technology company in the world to receive a quadruple A rating for Climate, Forest, Water, and Supplier Engagement Leader from CDP, and topped 3BL Media’s Best Corporate Citizen’s List. During her more than 10 years at HP, she served as Global Head of Sustainability Strategy and Innovation, led the program and partnerships to integrate the first HP Learning Studio into the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan, helped achieve the world’s most sustainable PC portfolio—including more than 50 HP products containing ocean-bound plastics—and helped establish HP’s global ocean-bound plastics supply chain in Haiti that supports jobs and education within the local community. She also helped build the HP Sustainable Forest Collaborative, working with partners to help protect the world’s forests. Ellen Jackowski serves on the board of directors for the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the advisory board of the Ocean Plastics Leadership Network, is a deputy advisor on the World Economic Forum’s Champions for Nature community, and the Executive Sponsor for the Black Employee Impact Network, Palo Alto Chapter. She has also served as a faculty member of The Prince of Wales’s Business & Sustainability Programme at the University of Cambridge. Sustainability and social impact have always been central to her career, from her first job at Ben and Jerry’s, to serving as a management and strategy consultant for Fortune 500 companies, through every role at HP, and now at Mastercard.