MTN Group President and Chief Executive Officer Ralph Mupita has been re-elected by his peers on the GSMA as a Deputy Chair, extending his term to December 2028 and ensuring that the African opportunity remains firmly on the agenda of the global mobile industry body.

MTN Group is Africa’s largest mobile operator. By end-June 2026, we served more than 317 million subscribers across 19 markets.

Ralph has been a deputy chair of the GSM Association (GSMA) since April 2025 and is also a founding Commissioner of the International Telecommunication Union’s ‘AI for Good Global Commission’. He has been at the helm of MTN Group since September 2020. Before that, he was the Group’s Chief Financial Officer.

He sees the GSMA as a vital platform that brings mobile operators, the broader tech ecosystem and policymakers to the same table to drive industry collaboration, investment and digital inclusion.

At MTN, he is driven to deliver on our purpose of ‘Leading digital solutions for Africa’s progress’. He is steering the Group’s Ambition 2030 strategy of One MTN | Three platforms: Connectivity, Fintech and Digital Infrastructure.

He sees Africa’s young population – the median age on the continent is around 19 years – as representing a unique engine for economic growth, which is unmatched in other parts of the world.

For the GSMA release, see here