ADEKEYE ADEBAJO: Iron Lady of Geneva has to summon her steely resolve to right WTO
Organisation has failed to conclude any global trade-liberalising deals since the collapse of the 2001 Doha round
28 February 2021 - 23:44
Nigeria’s former finance minister, 66-year-old Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, becomes director-general of the Geneva-based World Trade Organization (WTO) on March 1. She is the first woman and the first African to serve in the post.
Widely known as “the Iron Lady” for her tough anticorruption crusading, Okonjo-Iweala is a competent, courageous and intelligent Harvard-trained development economist with a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT). She spent 25 years at the World Bank, rising to vice-president, and revels in her celebrity status as a widely networked “Davos Dame”...
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