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CFR · Commander of the Federal RepublicTwice Federal Minister of Finance · Director-General, WTO· Conferred 2003-10-01

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Federal Minister of Finance 2003–06 and 2011–15. First African and first woman Director-General of the World Trade Organization since March 2021. CFR.

The record

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (b. 1954) served as Federal Minister of Finance under Obasanjo (2003–06), negotiating the Paris Club debt write-off of 2005–06 that cancelled about US$30 billion of Nigeria's $36 billion external debt. She returned as Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance under Jonathan (2011–15). She has been Director-General of the WTO since 1 March 2021.

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.