Lucy Quist, née Afriyie, (born 1974) is a Ghanaian-British business and

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executive. She is a managing director for Morgan Stanley

Early life and education

Born in

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to Ghanaian parents, Peter and Mary Afriyie, Lucy Quist spent her formative years in both

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and Africa. She went to

Wesley Girls' High School Wesley Girls' High School (WGHS) is an educational institution for girls in Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana. It was founded in 1836 by Harriet Wrigley, the wife of a Methodist minister. The school is named after the founder of Methodis ...

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and attended sixth-form college at the

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. She went on to study at the

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, graduating with a first-class honours degree in

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. She holds an MBA from

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Career

In her early working life, she was an Electrical and Electronic Engineer at

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, and attained her

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certification. She joined the

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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

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's Ghanaian subsidiary. In addition, she oversaw the company's wholesale and enterprise businesses. She served as the CEO of Airtel Ghana. In her leadership role, she advocated for greater youth

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participation in Ghana through her company's

corporate social responsibility Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a form of international private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature by engaging in or supporting volunteering or ethicall ...

initiative. She founded Quist Blue Diamond. She also co-founded FreshPay payment platform in the

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and the Executive Women Network. In September 2018, she was appointed by

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as their Vice President of the Normalization Committee to restructure football in Ghana. She is currently a Managing Director at

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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, TEDxEuston, Wharton Africa Business Forum, the Sanford C. Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics Conference at

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and the African Development Investment Convention.

Boards and directorships

Quist serves on several international and local boards of organisations including the: * International Board for

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(AIMS) * Chair, Petra (Pension) Trust Company Ltd. * Obaatan Pa Women's Hospital * Business Environment Enabling Programme under the UK

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(DFID) * Business Sounding Board for the Danish Embassy in Accra * Industry Advisory Board for

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* The Exploratory – An initiative of the African Women Advocacy Project * Ghana Climate innovation centre * Women in Business Initiative * Africa CEO Forum * Consolidated Bank of Ghana * International Board o
MercyShips

Works

* ''The Bold New Normal: Creating The Africa Where Everyone Prospers'' (2019)

Awards and honours

Quist has received the following awards: * 8th Most Influential Public Figures - Ghana Social Media Rankings (2016) * Corporate Leadership Award, Ghana Legacy Honours (2017) * Top 50 Women Corporate Leaders in Ghana (WomanRising) * 100 Most Influential Ghanaian Women, WomanRising * CSR CEO of the Year, Ghana CSR Excellence Awards (2015) * Telecom CEO of the Year, GITTA Awards (2016) * Excellence in Corporate Responsibility, Ghana Women of the Year Honours (2016) * 58th Most Influential Person in Ghana, Ghana's Most Influential Awards (2016) *

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Marketing Woman of the Year, CIMG 2015 Awards (2014) * Special Recognition to the Telecom Industry, GTA (2015) *BBC's Power Women

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Quist, Lucy Living people 1974 births English people of Ghanaian descent Alumni of the University of East London INSEAD alumni Akan people 21st-century Ghanaian businesswomen Ghanaian chief executives People educated at Wesley Girls' Senior High School Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School alumni Ghanaian women engineers