JoAnn Stonier, Mastercardfellow of Data and AI, Mastercard
JoAnn C. Stonier serves as the Fellow of Data & Artificial Intelligence for Mastercard as a leading expert in both disciplines and assists the organization’s innovation, policy, and risk efforts. JoAnn has been instrumental in designing and operationalizing Mastercard’s global data business, first as the firm’s first privacy officer, then as the first chief data officer and now as the first fellow. JoAnn is a global data expert and strategist with extensive experience overseeing the curation, quality, ethical use, governance, strategy, and management of Mastercard’s global data assets. She is an expert in artificial intelligence with a keen interest in ethics, data equity, minimization of bias and ensuring fair analytic outcomes, especially as generative artificial intelligence, and other technologies increase.
JoAnn is a highly sought-after thought leader and speaker in emergent data, AI, and privacy issues. She has advised industry executives, governments, intergovernmental organizations, and NGOs (nongovernmental organizations). Currently, she serves as the Chair of the USCIB’s Digital Policy Committee and is Co- Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Data Policy and Equity. She also teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and is an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute. She has been appointed as an Advisor to several organizations including: Omnicom Group/Credera’s AI Council, Cantellus Group and Elementum and she serves on the board of directors for Hope for the Warriors and the Academy of Mount St. Ursula.
JoAnn received her Juris Doctorate from St. John’s University and her Bachelor of Science degree from St. Francis College. She holds memberships in the Bar of the State of New York and the Bar of the State of New Jersey. She is based in Purchase, N.Y.
Selected Features and Publications follow:
- The Economist – The data dividend: harnessing information for competitive advantage”
- World Economic Forum Global Technology Governance Summit –Shaping the Future of the Data Economy
- Forbes – JoAnn Stonier of Mastercard—A Unique Take on the CDO Role
- Forbes – Fighting AI Bias: Digital Rights are Human Rights
- Harvard Business Review – Are You Asking Too Much of Your Chief Data Officer?
- Cyber Security Law Report – The Growing Role of the Chief Data Officer: Skill Sets, Priorities and Collaboration
- Captains of Privacy – Captains of Privacy Interview: JoAnn C. Stonier, Chief Data Officer for Mastercard World Economic Forum – Closing the trust gap: how responsible data use can accelerate a sustainable society
- Oliver Wyman Forum – Ensuring Privacy by Design
- Digital Futures Society – JoAnn Stonier
- Drexel – Beyond Payments: Insights from Mastercard’s Chief Data Officer
- PaymentSource/American Banker – Mastercard seeks to create collaborative data standards Bank Innovation – Behind Mastercard’s approach to data security and privacy
- Forbes – 10 Questions That Every Business Leader Must Answer
- Digital Transactions – Kabbage Payments Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/24/19
- CIO Dive – Mastercard seeks partners on data responsibility standards
- Gadget – Mastercard calls for ‘data decency’
- SmartCitiesWorld – Mastercard establishes principles for data responsibility Compliance Week – Mastercard encourages unity with data privacy initiative
- Banking Dive – Company of the Year: Mastercard
