Posted on 02/15/2021 5:58:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
GENEVA - Three months after the Trump administration rejected her, former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is set to receive unanimous backing on Monday to become the first woman and first African director-general of the World Trade Organization.
A self-declared “doer” with a track record of taking on seemingly intractable problems, Okonjo-Iweala will have her work cut out for her at the trade body, even with Donald Trump, who had threatened to pull the United States out of the organisation, no longer in the White House.
A 25-year veteran of the World Bank, where she oversaw an $81 billion portfolio, Okonjo-Iweala ran against seven other candidates by espousing a belief in trade’s ability to lift people out of poverty.
She studied development economics at Harvard after experiencing civil war in Nigeria as a teenager. She returned to the country in 2003 to serve as finance minister and backers point to her hard-nose negotiating skills that helped seal a deal to cancel billions of dollars of Nigerian debt with the Paris Club of creditor nations in 2005.
Key to her success will be her ability to operate in the centre of a “U.S.-EU-China triangle”, he said.
The endorsement of the Biden administration cleared the last obstacle to her appointment.
The Trump administration’s main criticism of her was that she lacked direct trade experience compared to her main South Korean rival and even supporters say she will have to quickly get up to speed on the technicalities of trade negotiations.
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Now we know where Aunt Jemima went to work after she was fired from the pancake mix boxes.
Her Prince still owes me money!
A picture (well, short video) is worth a thousand words.
Check out this video of Lagos, Nigeria (population 13.5M):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E67HTbrDWJg
They have no electricity in much of the city.
The residents in this slum have to take a boat (!) to get to a charging station to charge their cell-phones.
_This_ is the future the elites plan for _all_ the deplorables in the world.
And she has Nigerian Prince Obungo with ‘Barrister’ Stephen Mgumbo to assist her.
Well played sir!
We’re doomed.
“What they did talk about on this particular BBC presentation was the fact that over 2 billion people, particularly in Africa and India have sanitation problems. There are so few latrines that many people die from cholera. Also one billion people have no bathing facilities.”
Two billion people and not one can come up with a feasible sewage treatment program, but this one should be head of the WTO.
If she’s not a transgender lesbian then she doesn’t get my vote.
Perfect choice for them. Most of the internet money scams come from Nigeria.
Does she support trans and gay rights in African countries?
That’s all that matters.
Yeah—I am very angry about this.
The elites have had decades to use technology to solve hunger and sanitation issues and get electricity available throughout the third world.
Instead they steal the foreign aid and get themselves rich.
They are _sick_ evil sociopaths.
She was the finance minister of the most corrupt country during the most corruption! That’s achievement really hard to match. I would guess she is multimillionaire or billionaire with lots of money stashed in Swiss banks!
Her other achievement was to negotiate “debt canceling”.
That’s other world for Middle class people in rich countries giving money to the rich people in poor countries.
Taxpayers, get ready for more subsidies to the Rich people in poor countries.
South Parks character “token” should explain it .
Gaddafi‘s daughter emailed me, wanting to park millions in my account to escape confiscation in Libya. You suppose she’s good for it?
The Queen Bee of Corruption has arrived. Biden approved.
Is this some sort of a joke? 😳
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