Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has emerged Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after a keenly contested race.
Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s nominee, polled 104 votes from 164 member countries to defeat fellow finalist, South Korea’s Minister of Trade, Yoo Myung-Hee.
WTO is expected to make the official announcement later today by WTO.
Okonjo-Iweala was Nigeria’s finance minister during the tenures of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan.
She has experience working at international governance bodies as a former managing director of the World Bank and as a chairman at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.
With her record victory in the WTO to job race, Okonjo-Iweala becomes the first African and first female Director-General in the 25-year history of the organization.
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