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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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