Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the challenge of WTO By Fri Feb 26 2021 The World Trade Organization (WTO) rule-maker for the global trading system which started life on the 1st of January 1995, has just had its glass ceiling shattered, with the first woman climbing to the apex of its structure. To add to the significance of the first, the woman in question, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former two-time finance minister and foreign minister is the first of African descent to be appointed to oversee the rules of the world trading system. Though she has recently acquired American citizenship, ha...