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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Director-General of the World Trade Organization from 2021; Finance Minister of Nigeria, 2003–2006 and 2011–2015

Nigeria · b. 1954

Became Director-General of the World Trade Organization in 2021, the first woman and first African to hold the post. She served twice as Nigeria's finance minister and spent 25 years at the World Bank, latterly as Managing Director.

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What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?
And it brings us to the debate that has been going on here: aid versus private sector, aid versus trade, etc. And someone stood up to say that one of the frustrating things is that it's been a simplistic debate. And that's not what the debate should be about. That's engaging in the wrong debate. The issue here is how do we get a partnership that involves government donors, the private sector and ordinary African people taking charge of their own lives? How do we combine all this?

Recorded TEDGlobal 2007, Arusha, 7 June 2007 source

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What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong?
What I want to do this morning is share with you a couple of stories and talk about a different Africa. Already this morning there were some allusions to the Africa that you hear about all the time: the Africa of HIV/AIDS, the Africa of malaria, the Africa of poverty, the Africa of conflict, and the Africa of disasters. While it is true that those things are going on, there's an Africa that you don't hear about very much. And sometimes I'm puzzled, and I ask myself why. This is the Africa that is changing, that Chris alluded to. This is the Africa of opportunity. This is the Africa where people want to take charge of their own futures and their own destinies.

Recorded TED2007, 3 March 2007 source

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