ECONOMIST

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

1954 - Today

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ( ; born 13 June 1954) is a Nigerian economist, who has been serving as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization since March 2021. She is the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization as Director-General. She was previously on the boards of Danone, Standard Chartered Bank, MINDS: Mandela Institute for Development Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, One Campaign, GAVI: Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, Rockefeller Foundation, R4D: Results for Development, ARC: African Risk Capacity and Earthshot Prize plus others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has received more than 1,847,838 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the 275th most popular economist (down from 255th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Nigeria (down from 25th in 2019) and the most popular Nigerian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ranks 275 out of 414. Before her are Evsei Liberman, Boediono, Joshua Angrist, John R. Commons, Alfred Müller-Armack, and Leo Huberman. After her are Bruno de Finetti, Arthur Laffer, Alexander Chayanov, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Gian Domenico Romagnosi, and Paul Sweezy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ranks 246. Before her are Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou, Mark Tornillo, François Van der Elst, Ingrid Daubechies, Catherine Bach, and Wolfgang Becker. After her are Louise Erdrich, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Mauro Baldi, Angelo De Donatis, Roy Jacobsen, and Hansi Hinterseer.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ranks 33 out of 309. Before her are Shehu Shagari (1925), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977), Yakubu Gowon (1934), Tony Allen (1940), C. Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933), and Murtala Mohammed (1938). After her are Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904), Taribo West (1974), Aliko Dangote (1957), Emmanuel Amunike (1970), Ibrahim Zakzaky (1953), and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Nigeria

Among economists born in Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ranks 1. 

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