Lucy Quist, the first Ghanaian woman to head a multinational telecommunications company as the former CEO of Airtel Ghana. She is a co-founder of the Executive Women Network. She served as the Vice President of FIFA’s normalisation committee in Ghana.

Lucy is a chartered electrical and electronic engineer with a first-class honours degree from the University of East London. She is also a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (UK) and holds an MBA from INSEAD in France.

She has decades of corporate experience with blue chip companies starting at Ford Motor Company. She has held senior leadership positions at Millicom, Vodafone and Airtel. Her career spans manufacturing, telecommunications, banking and automative industries in Europe and Africa.

She is a passionate advocate who believes in harnessing STEM to advance development around the world by ensuring greater participation of young people.

Lucy Quist is currently a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and the author of the book, ‘The Bold New Normal’.

Her accolades includes – CIMG Marketing Woman of the year, Telecom CEO of the Year, CSR CEO of the year and the Corporate Leadership Award.

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