World Leaders Forum Hosts Conversation with World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The World Leaders Forum is a year-round event series at Columbia University that has hosted over 300 heads of state and world leaders from more than 85 countries since launching in 2003.

On September 23, the World Leaders Forum at Columbia hosted a conversation with IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director-general of the World Trade Organization, and the first woman and first African to hold the position. As an economist and international development expert, Okonjo-Iweala broke barriers as Nigeria’s first female, longest-serving finance minister, and later as its first female foreign minister. Merit Janow, SIPA Dean Emerita and IGP Affiliated Faculty member, moderated the discussion.