Free and Fair Trade
Mar 04, 2021
3 minutes
By Charles Onunaiju
he World Trade Organization (WTO), the rule-making body for the global trading system that started life on January 1, 1995, has just had its glass ceiling shattered, with the first woman climbing to the apex of its structure. To add to the significance, the woman in question, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former two-time finance minister and foreign minister, is the first African appointed to be the director general of the WTO. Though she has recently acquired American citizenship, having studied, worked, and lived in the U.S.
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