The director-general of the World Trade Organization is the officer of the World Trade Organization responsible for supervising and directing the organization's administrative operations. Since the Wo
Ngozi Okonjo Iweala takes over as new WTO Director General, 1 March 2021
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Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian economist who has been serving as the director-general of the World Trade Organization since March 2021. She is the first ever woman and also the first African to
Director-General of the World Trade Organization
…The director-general supervises the WTO secretariat of about 700 staff and is appointed by WTO members for a term of four years. On 1 March 2021, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria took office, becoming both the first woman and the first African to hold this position. Before the formation of the WTO, the General Agreement…
Okonjo-Iweala, at the 2004 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group
World Bank portrait, 2008
Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua with Okonjo-Iweala, then managing director of the World Bank, in 2008