About

Thibaut Grégoire has been the general counsel for the Europe region since 2014. He has been leading the legal, compliance, regulatory and public policy support for Mastercard’s businesses in the Mastercard’s Europe region, and oversees the franchise teams in that region. As from 2021, Thibaut has the expanded role of general counsel international markets and Europe. In his new role, he is responsible for the management of legal, regulatory, compliance, public policy and franchise support for Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Thibaut deals, on a daily basis, with a wide number of complex and challenging matters, engages with senior governmental stakeholders on industry-wide subjects, leads international commercial transactions, oversees anti-trust and regulatory matters, and handles settlement negotiations. In addition, Thibaut has been driving the one team culture with passion, where all team members understand the need to enable the business by leveraging the various expertise in the team and the diversity to provide creative solutions. He has transformed his entire department (across markets and functions) through change leadership, driving results, creating a culture of transparency, collaboration, innovation, diversity and inclusion. Before joining Mastercard in 2007, Thibaut worked as an attorney-at-law as a member of the bar of Brussels. Thibaut holds a law degree from the University of Louvain (UCL) and a Master in Business Law from the University of Brussels (ULB).