Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala set to become first female Chief of WTO

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Nigerian economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been chosen as the next Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
She would be the first woman as well as the first African national to lead the organization.
Okonjo-Iweala, the former finance minister of Nigeria, will succeed Roberto Azevedo, who stepped down in August 2020.
World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarter: Geneva, Switzerland.