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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian-American economist, fair trade advocate, environmental sustainability champion, human welfare champion, sustainable finance guru, and global development expert. Okonjo-Iweala, as she is colloquially known, is the current Director-General of the World Trade Organization. She is the World Trade Organization's first female and African Director-General. Early Life and Education Okonjo-Iweala was born
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Continuously Shattering Glass Ceilings Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian-American economist and international development expert. She sits on the boards of Standard Chartered Bank, Twitter, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, and the African Risk Capacity. Known to break glass ceilings in her career path, she recently made history again as the first woman and African to be appointed as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. To commemorate the 2021 International Womenâs Day celebration, Chiemelie Ezeobi profiles this amazon that stands tall and inspires million of young girls to aspire for greatness This year, the theme for the annual International Womenâs Day (IWD) was #ChooseToChallenge and what better way to mark it than to profile Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, an economist and international development expert, who recently put Nigeria on the global map by becoming the first female and first African to occupy the seat of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as the seventh director general.