Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). She is an economist and international development expert with over 30 years of experience. She was Chair of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (2016 – 2020), the African Risk Capacity (2014 – 2020) and Co-Chair of The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. Previously, she served as Senior Advisor at Lazard and sat on the Boards of Standard Chartered PLC and Twitter Inc. Dr Okonjo-Iweala was appointed as an AU COVID-19 Special Envoy and WHO COVID-19 Special Envoy.
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan, Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Nigerian media mogul Mosunmola Abudu, are the only African women featured in the list of the World’s Most Powerful 100 Women by Forbes.
The John Snow Society Annual Pumphandle Lecture will be given by Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, entitled "Global health equity and the role of trade".
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