02-03-2021 | 12:32 PM
Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
The Nigerian economist Ngozi Okonjo Iweala has been appointed as the head of the World Trade Organization. She has become the first woman to take this position.
She has also become the first African to hold this charge.
Okonjo-Iweala was named as the Director General by the representatives of the 164 member countries of WTO.
The WTO is the organisation dealing with the rules of trade between the nations on the basis of negotiated agreements.
