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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Guardian of global trade

ON ITS SURFACE, THE MANDATE OF the World Trade Organization (WTO) is relatively circumscribed: to make and enforce rules for global trade. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who was unanimously selected as the organization’s director-general on Feb. 15, has much loftier goals.

Okonjo-Iweala is the first woman and the first African to head the WTO.