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GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Trade Organization plans a special meeting of its top decision-making body later this month where a call could be made on the reappointment of its director-general ...
WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will seek another four-year term as head of the World Trade Organization following a broad Africa-led push to start the process early, aiming to complete ...
Okonjo-Iweala was born in Ogwashi-Ukwu, Delta State, Nigeria, where her father, Professor Chukwuka Okonjo, was the Obi (king) of the Obahai royal family of Ogwashi-Ukwu in Nigeria. [ 22 ] Okonjo-Iweala briefly attended Queen's School, Enugu ; she was later relocated to live and to further her education in St. Anne's School, Molete , Ibadan ...
On February 5, 2021, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria secured the support of the United States for Director-General of the WTO. [4] Okonjo-Iweala assumed office on 1 March 2021, and became both the first woman and the first African to hold this position.
The three official candidates were [38] Korean-American Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth College; Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Finance Minister of Nigeria; and Colombian Jose Antonio Ocampo, the director at the Economic and Political Development Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, an economist and former finance minister of Nigeria, has become the first woman and the first African to... View Article The post Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to be first Black woman ...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Director-General: Gallery of participating leaders. Canada Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister. France Emmanuel Macron, President. Germany Olaf Scholz,
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala GCON (/ ə ŋ ˈ ɡ oʊ z i ə ˈ k oʊ n dʒ oʊ ɪ ˈ w eɪ l ə / ⓘ; born 13 June 1954) is a Nigerian economist, who has been serving as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization since March 2021. She is the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization as Director-General.