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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Biography: The World Trade Organization's First Female and African Director-General

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 ....

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2021 International Women's Day: #ChooseToChallenge

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 th ....

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Backlash as Swiss newspapers say the new WTO DG is a '66-year-old Nigerian grandmother'

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As influential as the Stern Review: Green economy reacts to the Dasgupta biodiversity study

As influential as the Stern Review: Green economy reacts to the Dasgupta biodiversity study
A new landmark review, commissioned by the Government, has suggested that services provided by nature should be assigned an economic value that is used to inform future policy decisions, a move that has been unanimously welcomed by green groups.
The green economy has welcomed the review with open arms
The UK Government commissioned Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta to lead an independent, global Review on the Economics of Biodiversity in Spring 2019. One of the main aims of this review on the ‘Economics of Biodiversity’ was to create insight into how financial and policy decisions can reverse biodiversity loss. ....

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