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About Lucy Quist
Lucy Quist, née Afriyie is a Ghanaian-British business and technology executive. She is currently Managing Director for Morgan Stanley.
In her early working life, she was an Electrical and Electronic Engineer at Ford Motor Company and attained her Chartered Engineer certification. She joined the Royal Bank of Scotland as a change manager before switching to the telecommunications industry in 2008 at Millicom International Cellular, working in business development, sales, distribution, and marketing. Lucy Quist was appointed Head of Strategy and Planning at Vodafone’s Ghanaian subsidiary. In addition, she oversaw the company’s wholesale and enterprise businesses. She has also served as the CEO of Airtel Ghana another one of Ghana’s telecommunications companies.
In her leadership role, she advocated for greater youth STEM participation in Ghana through her company’s corporate social responsibility initiative. She founded Quist Blue Diamond. She also co-founded FreshPay payment platform in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Executive Women Network. In September 2018, she was appointed by FIFA as their Vice President of the Normalization Committee to restructure football in Ghana. She is currently a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley in its London office. She has also been engaged on the public speaking circuit at events such as the Mobile World Congress, Hogan Lovells African Forum 2017, Pan African Women Forum, TEDx Euston, Wharton Africa Business Forum, the Sanford C. Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics Conference at Columbia Business School and the African Development Investment Convention
Lucy serves on several international and local boards of organizations including:
- International Board for African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
- Chair, Petra (Pension) Trust Company Ltd.
- Obaatan Pa Women’s Hospital
- Business Environment Enabling Programme under the UK Department of International Development (DFID)
- Business Sounding Board for the Danish Embassy in Accra
- Industry Advisory Board for Ashesi University
- The Exploratory – An initiative of the African Women Advocacy Project
- Ghana Climate Innovation Centre
- Women in Business Initiative
- Africa CEO Forum amongst a host of others…
Lucy Quist is the Author of The Bold New Normal, creating an Africa where everyone prospers. She is definitely one of Africa’s Titans worthy of emulation.
And Global African Times celebrates this great titan.
Source: www.wikipedia.com
