Our Woman Achiever for October 2022 – Madam Lucy Quist

Lucy Quist is the Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, serving as the Global Head of Firm Resilience. She is a thought leader and the first Ghanaian woman to head a multinational telecommunications company, Airtel Ghana, as its former CEO. She is a member of the boards of INSEAD and Mercy Ships. Prior to that, she held senior leadership positions at Millicom, Vodafone and Airtel. Her career spans manufacturing, telecommunications, banking and automotive industries in Europe and Africa.

In 2016, Madam Lucy Quist was featured on the BBC’s power women series as one of the top business women driving transformational change in Africa. She is an author of one of the bestselling books in Africa “The Bold New Normal”. She previously served as the president of AIMS Ghana and the board chair of Petra (Pension) Trust.

Educational Background

She is a chartered electrical and electronic engineer with a first-class honours degree from the University of East London and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.