Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Director-General of the World Trade Organization · Nigeria · Politicians · Born 1954 · age 72

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Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian economist who has been serving as the director-general of the World Trade Organization since March 2021. She is the first ever woman and also the first African to lead the World Trade Organization as director-general.

A life in dates

2024Dostyk Order of grade IIAwardOrder of Timor-LesteAward2023Global Economy PrizeAward2021Time 100Award2017BBC 100 WomenAward1954Born13 June 1954

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Okonjo-Iweala, at the 2004 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group

World Bank portrait, 2008

Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua with Okonjo-Iweala, then managing director of the World Bank, in 2008

Rachel Wolfe, Okonjo-Iweala at Climate Week NYC 2025

Awards

Order of Timor-Leste2024

Dostyk Order of grade II2024

Global Economy Prize2023

Time 1002021

BBC 100 Women2017

Honorary Doctorate from Brown University

Honorary Doctorate

Honorary Doctor of Amherst College

Honorary Doctorate of Trinity College, Dublin

Family

Father Chukuka Okonjo

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Partners

Spouse Ikemba Iweala

Child Uzodinma Iweala

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Nigeria

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Sani Abacha60.2

Amina J. Mohammed59.6

Goodluck Jonathan62.7

Ahmadu Bello59.1

Muhammadu Buhari64.5

Bola Ahmed Tinubu59.0

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