Mrs. Thelma Efua Quaye is a self-starter and results driven person with great ability to move projects into implementation phase. She has the ability to reinvent herself in a dynamic work environment and has good interpersonal and networking skills. She has fourteen (14) years’ experience in different Senior Managerial roles and has diversified international and multicultural experience. She is currently the Chief Digital Infrastructure, Skills and Empowerment Officer at the Smart Africa Secretariat in Kigali, Rwanda.

Her key activities include supporting Governments across Africa to transform their economies into a digital one through the building blocks of digital infrastructure, capacity building and inclusivity through empowerment of Women and Girls into ICT. Prior to joining Smart Africa Secretariat in 2019, she worked as the Head of Business at the Code Factory Africa, Accra. She also worked as the Technical Integration Director in Airtel Ghana Limited from November 2017 to January 2018. Thelma holds a Bachelor of Sciences (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) Degree from KNUST and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration Laws degree from the Paris Graduate School of Management, Paris – France. She has also undertaken several professional development-training programs.