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Lucy Quist

Lucy Quist MBA’05J

Managing Director, Head of Transformation for Global Transaction Banking at Barclays

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Lucy is Managing Director and Head of Transformation for Global Transaction Banking at Barclays, excited to be part of the bank’s evolution and repositioning.

She is an accomplished strategic business leader with extensive experience in financial services and telecommunications. She believes in collaborative leadership, creating room for people in her teams to succeed together and thrive as they deliver business results. She serves on the boards of INSEAD Business School, CSquared, and Margins ID Group.

She served as Managing Director and Global Head of Firm Resilience at Morgan Stanley, where she led the bank's Business Continuity, Operational Resilience, 3rd party resilience, Disaster Recovery and Governance functions.

Prior to this, she was the Global Head of Change for Technology Transformation at Morgan Stanley.

She started her financial services career at the Royal Bank of Scotland after her MBA at INSEAD, working in Operations.

She has served as a telecom CEO for Airtel, and held leadership roles at Vodafone and Millicom International Cellular. Early in her career she worked at Ford Motor Company.

Lucy is a chartered electrical and electronic engineer with a first-class honors degree from the University of East London. She speaks French as a second business language.

Her experience in strategy, organisational development, business transformation and growth, combined with her board expertise, make her a valuable asset to the organizations she serves.

She is the author of the book, The Bold New Normal, and Convenor of the annual conference of the same title.

Lucy is passionate about giving back and has written several articles sharing insights on career advancement and leadership.