Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian-American 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.
Okonjo-Iweala in 2021
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the 2004 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group
World Bank portrait, 2008
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at the 2007 World Economic Forum
World Trade Organization
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that regulates and facilitates international trade. Governments use the organization to establish, revise, and enforce the rules that govern international trade in cooperation
with the United Nations System. The WTO is the world's largest international economic organization, with 164 member states representing over 98% of global trade and global GDP.
The economists Harry White (left) and John Maynard Keynes at the Bretton Woods Conference
The World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1998, in the Palace of Nations (Geneva, Switzerland)
The headquarters of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland
Image: Peter Sutherland (1985)