Mr. Johnson is a telecommunications expert whose career in the industry spans over 35 years, with a special focus on mobile telecommunications and fibre infrastructure development. He has worked as Chief Technical Officer for the MTN Group, Chief Executive Officer for MTN Rwanda, and Chief Technical Officer for MTN Uganda, as well as other positions within MTN Group. Prior to that, he worked as a telecommunications engineer for Eskom.
Mr. Johnson has extensive business and technology management consulting experience within the Sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific regions in 18 different countries for the African Development Bank, World Bank and other entities and operators. He is worked as Principal Consultant at Tubitayeho Telecomms Consulting in South Africa for the past 11 years.
He previously served as a Director for MTN subsidiaries in Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda, whilst working for MTN Group and MTN International. Mr. Johnson holds a BSc (Eng) Electrical-
Light Current, from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, with a specialisation in elecommunications and Alternative Energies.
