Jennifer M. Sloan

Jennifer Sloan has extensive experience across all aspects of government, media and public relations, and internal and external affairs. In addition to working for Target (Canada), York University and Vale (Inco) Ltd., she also worked with some of Canada’s leading government and political figures. As the vice president of public policy at Mastercard Canada, Jennifer is currently in charge of developing and managing the company’s public affairs and government relations programs.

Jennifer is a director and treasurer of the Canadian American Business Council (CABC), as well as a G(irls)20 board director. She is the chair of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication’s Board of Trust (BOT). She previously served as the president of the Grady College Alumni Board, the president of the Canadian Club of Toronto, and was the chair-elect of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) Board of Directors.

She was honored with the Grady Fellowship at the University of Georgia in November 2013, the Henry W. Grady Alumni Award and the Sigma Kappa National Colby Award in 2007, and a Minister’s Citation for Foreign Policy Excellence in 1996.

Jennifer has a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.