Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala makes history twice over as new WTO head
Okonjo-Iweala, self-declared ‘doer’ with a track record of taking on seemingly intractable problems, has her work cut out at trade body
15 February 2021 - 18:24
Geneva — Three months after the Trump administration rejected her, former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received unanimous backing on Monday to become the first woman and first African director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
A self-declared “doer” with a track record of taking on seemingly intractable problems, Okonjo-Iweala will have her work cut out for her at the trade body, even with Donald Trump, who had threatened to pull the US out of the organisation, no longer in the White House...
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