Tucci Ivowi

Tucci Ivowi
Strategic Advisor, Global Village Consortium

Tucci Ivowi is a business leader and strategist with over 25 years of international experience across the UK, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa in both public and private sectors. As the first female and Ghanaian business executive officer for Nestlé Central & West Africa, founding DCEO and later CEO of the Ghana Commodity Exchange, and the Convener of the AfCFTA Association of Commodities Exchanges, she has led transformative initiatives across the African continent. A Chartered Marketer and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK, and creator of the SMARTER Leadership framework, she is a thought leader, contributing to platforms such as the Harvard Business Review. She serves on various boards and has been widely recognised for her leadership and humanitarian impact.

Amongst her passions are growth and development; to that end, she is a mentor to several young professionals, and she shares her experience through different channels. She developed the SMARTER Leadership to share her experiences with her peers, as well as to give practical coaching to new and aspiring leaders. A thought-leader, she speaks and writes on leadership, marketing, communications and intra-Africa trade. Her Podcast, ‘SMARTER Leadership in a Minute,’ is available on Apple, Google, Spotify and YouTube.

She is a member of the ‘Executive Women’s Network’ in Ghana, an organisation which works to influence and drive policy changes with the aim of increasing the representation of women in senior leadership positions in Ghana. She also currently serves on the Board of the newly created Girl Code Africa, an NGO seeking to bridge the gender divide for women in Africa through education in STEAM, with a special emphasis on technology.

She is an advocate for support of people with mental health conditions and through her foundation, Forty Lives, she is working with other organisations to promote the implementation of good mental health practices in Ghana. She is also active in church counselling and prison ministry, as she believes in the transformational power of support.

She is a non-executive director at Unilever Ghana Plc, and her professional qualifications include a certificate in Leadership from London Business School. She holds a BA in Political Science and French from the University of Sussex and an MBA from Warwick University, both in the UK, as well as a Degree from the Institute of Political Studies, in Aix-En-Provence, France.