Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has nominated former Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the position of Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO).
Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmad disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
The World Trade Organization founded on 1st January, 1995 with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland is an intergovernmental organization that is concerned with the regulation of international trade between nations. It has 164 member states,
Okonjo-Iweala, 2020 Harvard Kennedy School Angelopoulos Fellow, apart from meritoriously serving Nigeria’s government has done same across the world in various portfolios.
She is currently WHO’s Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools and AU Special Envoy to solicit funds for the fight against Coronavirus pandemic.
She had worked at the World Bank for 25 years and also at WEF. 2004 TIME European Heroes award. Others are; Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank International Advisory Panel; Co-Chair of the Global Commission for the Economy and Climate.
Okonjo-Iwealla co-chaired the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity; member, World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Foundation and UN’ Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda.
She is the founder of Nigeria’s first indigenous opinion-research organization, NOI-Polls. She also founded the Center for the Study of Economies of Africa (C-SEA) Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Brookings Institution.
Dr. Okonjo Iweala is on UNESCO’s International Commission on the Futures of Education. She is also Japan International Cooperation Agency International Advisory Board member, and many more.
“President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the nomination of Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, former coordinating minister for the economy, for the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)” Shehu quoted Cable.