Okonjo-Iweala had a 25-year career at the World Bank, eventually becoming its number two. She was the Washington-based institution's managing director and ran for the top job in 2012.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian economist with a Harvard degree, has a distinguished career in international development and finance that spans more than thirty years. She is the first African and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In an interview recorded before President Trump hit China, Mexico and Canada with steep tariffs that ...

The first woman and the first African to hold the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has ... Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University.