Hendrik Bourgeois

Hendrik Bourgeois leads Government Affairs at Mastercard in Europe.

With more than two decades of experience at the intersection of business, law and policy, Hendrik represents Mastercard with European governments, EU institutions, and public stakeholders on a wide variety of issues, promoting Mastercard´s growth and investment strategy in Europe. He is the former President of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, and he has a long career in the private sector including at Intel, Apple, and Cargill. Before that, Hendrik served for almost two decades in several senior executive positions at General Electric (GE).

Hendrik worked as an attorney in private practice in Washington DC and Brussels, obtained his law degree at the Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Belgium, and has an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School.