Bio

Linda Locke
Group Head-Reputation & Issues Management
MasterCard Worldwide

Linda Locke serves as group head, Reputation and Issues Management for MasterCard Worldwide. She is based in Purchase, New York, and has been with MasterCard for 12 years. For 11 years she oversaw communications for Global Technology and Operations, the largest division at MasterCard.

Ms. Locke has led the development and deployment of quantitative tools to monitor reputation and the media globally for MasterCard, and consults throughout the company to help the organization build a stronger reputation among stakeholders.

Ms. Locke joined MasterCard in 1996 after eight years heading corporate communications for Boatmen’s Bancshares, Inc., where she led advertising and public relations activities. She has also served as the creative/account director for an advertising agency; as a consultant to AT&T network systems; as communications director for HOK Computer Systems Company; in political campaigns and nonprofit organizations; and with the Peace Corps in Morocco, North Africa. There she taught in a local high school during the day, and established an adult school four evenings a week.

She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Kansas State University, and did graduate work in sociology and journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has served on the boards of many organizations, including on the executive boards of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Partners for Progress, Rainbow Village and Webster University.

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