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Ngozi Okonjo Iweala

“Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; is the first African and female to ever be elected to the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) . She was born 1954 in Southern Nigeria and is a Nigerian-American economist, a world leader and also an inspiration many the world over. She is a Harvard graduate who also holds a PHD from MIT. Dr “Okonjo-Iweala is the founder of Nigeria’s first indigenous opinion-research organization, NOI-Polls. She also founded the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (C-SEA), a development research think-tank based in Abuja, and is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Brookings Institution.”wikipedia.com

Dr Ngozi Okonjo is truly the definition of accomplishd she sits on numerous boards including; “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. She also previously sat on the Twitter Board of Directors, and stepped down in February, 2021 in connection with her appointment as Director General of the World Trade Organization.” She was also twice Nigeria’s Finance Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister becoming the first woman, once again to hold this position.

As Finance Minister Dr Ngozi negotiated an 18billion USD debt write-off helping Nigeria have it’s first ever sovereign debt rating, this was “the biggest single debt relief in Africa’s history when they unveiled a plan that will eradicate $31 bn (£17.3 bn) of debts owed by Nigeria within six months.”-theguardian.com The plan included strict economic and anti-corruption measures and was hailed by many as an incredible feat and Hilary Benn, the international development secretary, was quoted as saying: “The deal will help to change the lives of millions of people in Nigeria. “It will mean more schools, more teachers and better health services for a country which has the biggest population in Africa. “The deal is major step in bringing about a better future for a country in which seven million children receive no schooling at all and one in five die before their fifth birthday.”-theguardian.com After her tenure in government, between 2015 to 2016 Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala became a member of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity which was chaired by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, “and the Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance, which was established by the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors .Since 2014, she has been cochairing the Global Commission for the Economy and Climate, with Nicholas Stern and Paul Polman. In January 2016, she became the chairelect of the Board of Gavi.”

One of favourite roles she was held was her role as part of UNESCO’s International Commission on the Futures of Education, whihc was chaired by Ethiopia’s first female President Sahle-Work Zewde. We love it when female legends partner and break societal glass ceilings together, this just goes to show us that as women we are stronger together and have so much to offer the world when we unite. “Also since 2019, she has also been serving on the High-Level Council on Leadership & Management for Development of the Aspen Management Partnership for Health (AMP Health). In 2020, the International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva appointed her to an external advisory group to provide input on policy challenges.Also in 2020, she was appointed by the African Union (AU) as special envoy to solicit international support to help the continent deal with the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In early 2021, Okonjo-Iweala was appointed as co-chair, alongside Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Lawrence Summers, of the High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) on financing the global commons for pandemic preparedness and response, which had been established by the G20. In July 2021, she joined the Multilateral Leaders Task Force on COVID-19 Vaccines, Therapeutics, and Diagnostics for Developing Countries, cochaired by Tedros Adhanom and David Malpass. In January 2022, Okonjo-Iweala joined The Group of thirty (G30), an independent body of distinguished policymakers from around the world.” sourced: wikipedia.com. We at SHANA Media support this spectacularly out-standing ‘Boss Woman’ and we can’t wait to follow in her footsteps along the path of positive African and International change for a better future, today!

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