GENEVA: Nigeria’s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is proposed to become the new director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), a WTO official announced on Wednesday.
WTO spokesman Keith Rockwell told a media briefing that a key group of three WTO ambassadors, the so-called “troika,” proposed Okonjo-Iweala as the new head of the Geneva-based organization in a closed-door meeting, assessing that the candidate “had the best chance of attaining the consensus of the membership.”
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