Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
Candidate for Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
14 honorary degrees including Yale University, Brown University, Colby College, Tel Aviv University, University of Pennsylvania, Amherst College, Dublin College, Trinity College, North Caribbean University.
On the Board of Twitter, GAVI, Standard Chartered Bank and ARC.
Former World Bank Group MD.
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
On South Africa's Presidential Economic Advisory Council.
Nigeria's former Minister of Economy, former Minister of Finance and former Minister of Foreign Affairs.
2020 Harvard Kennedy School Angelopoulos Fellow.
WHO's Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools.
On UNESCO's International Commission on the Futures of Education.
An IMF's advisory group.
AU Special Envoy to solicit funds for the fight against Coronavirus.
Japan International Cooperation Agency International Advisory Board member.
She worked at the World Bank for 25 years and also worked at WEF.
2004 TIME European Heroes award.
Senior Adviser of Lazard.
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank International Advisory Panel.
Co-Chair of the Global Commission for the Economy and Climate.
Ex Co-Chair of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation.
International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity member.
World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Foundation.
2005 Euromoney Global Finance Minister of the Year.
Former AfDB Board of Governors Member (2003-2006, 2011-2015).
Member of IMF Committee (2003-2006, 2011-2015).
Chair of the World Bank-IMF Development Committee (2004).
National honours from Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Nigeria.
UN’ Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda.
She is the founder of Nigeria’s first indigenous opinion-research organization, NOI-Polls.
She also founded the Center for the Study of Economies of Africa (C-SEA).
Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Brookings Institution
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