Africa At The Helm Of World Trade Organization
By Soko Directory Team / Published February 17, 2021 | 10:47 am KEY POINTS
What it (the WTO) needs is someone who has the capability to drive reform, who knows the trade, and who does not want to see business as usual.
By Clinton Ochieng
Former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received unanimous backing on Monday to become the first woman and first African director-general of the World Trade Organization.
This comes three months after the Trump administration rejected her. A self-declared “doer” with a track record of taking on seemingly intractable problems, Okonjo-Iweala will have her work cut out for her at the trade body, even with Donald Trump, who had threatened to pull the United States out of the organization, no longer in the White House.