Lucy Quist is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and the author of the book, ‘The Bold New Normal’. She is an international business leader focused on technology, transformation and thought leadership for positive business returns. She is 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.
She also served as the board chair of Petra (Pension) Trust and was a board member of the Consolidated Bank Ghana. She currently serves on the boards of INSEAD and Mercy Ships.
She is a chartered electrical and electronic engineer with a first-class honours degree from the University of East London. She is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (UK) and holds an MBA from INSEAD in France. She has over two decades of corporate experience with blue chip companies starting at Ford Motor Company. She has held C-level positions for a decade at Tigo (Millicom), Vodafone and Airtel. Her career spans manufacturing, telecommunications, banking and automotive industries in Europe and Africa. She has led technical, marketing and sales functions before becoming CEO.
She is a passionate advocate who believes in harnessing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to advance development in Africa. She also advocates for greater participation in STEM, especially for young people, across the continent.
To learn more about Lucy’s work, please watch her TEDx Talk – A Bold New Normal (https://youtu.be/Od0U_UzAOkk) or find out more about her at (www.lucyquist.com)
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Lucy Quist is a Ghanaian international business leader. She is a technology professional who advocates for greater participation of young people in STEM for development.
She is a co-founder of the Executive Women Network and served as the Vice President of FIFA’s normalisation committee in Ghana. Before joining Airtel Ghana as CEO, Lucy was Director of Vodafone Ghana, as the first woman to run a multinational telecom business. In 2016, she was named the Telecom CEO of the year. She had previously been honored for leading transformational change that is shaping the telecom industry thinking.
Lucy Quist is a technology enthusiast who believes in the potential of technology to leapfrog Africa’s development. She passionately advocates for greater participation in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics for Africa’s development and continuously encourages young people to harness the game-changing power of STEM. She speaks from experience as someone whose career success has been greatly influenced by STEM.
She is currently the Managing Director and Head of Change Leadership at Morgan Stanley. Lucy is the author of The Bold New Normal book. Her experiences have seen her serve businesses and consumers across both Francophone and Anglophone Africa She has been able to demonstrate to Ghana and the world that leadership is not a function of gender. She is an example that black women, African women, are able to lead big businesses.
#TheBoldNewNormal is an action-based idea under which Lucy Quist advocates for Africans to take bold actions towards African prosperity. She believes that with a change in the visions, language and mindset of its people, Africa can take bold actions to create prosperity for itself.
- 1974 – Born in London to Ghanaian parents.
- 2008 – stepped into telecommunications as CMO for Millcom.
- 2010 – Relocated to DRC for Millcom.
- 2014 – Enterprise Director of Vodafone Ghana.
- 2015 – CIMG Marketing Woman of the Year.
- 2016 – Joins Airtel, Telecom CEO of the Year.
- 2017 – Corporate Leadership Award, Ghana Legacy Honours.
- 2018 – FIFA appointed her Vice President of the normalization committee.
- 2019 – The Bold New Normal: Creating The Africa Where Everyone Prospers.
