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Nonresident Senior Fellow

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former minister of finance and minister of foreign affairs, is a Managing Director of the World Bank. She focuses on international development and finance, economic reform and transparency issues—particularly in Africa.



Expertise

Development finance; Economic reform; Transparency; Debt; the World Bank

Background

Past Positions
Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Nigeria; Vice President and Corporate Secretary, Director for Operations in the Middle East and North Africa Region, Country Director for the South East Asia and Mongolia Country Unit, the World Bank

Expert Awards
TIME Magazine Hero of the Year (2004); Euromarket Forum Award for Vision and Courage (2003)

Education

Ph.D., M.I.T.; A.B., Harvard University


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