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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala [PHOTO CREDIT: @NOIweala]

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WTO: Okonjo-Iweala, one other candidate emerge finalists – Report

WTO General Council Chairman David Walker will formally announce the results to the institution’s delegates on Thursday morning.

byOladeinde Olawoyin
October 7, 2020
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The World Trade Organisation members have selected two final candidates to advance to the final round in the race to lead the Geneva-based trade body, a Bloomberg report said Wednesday.

Quoting sources familiar with the matter, the news organisation said the candidates are Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee.

WTO General Council Chairman David Walker will formally announce the results to the institution’s delegates on Thursday morning in Geneva.

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By implication, three candidates have been edged out of the race by the selected duo.

The three candidates are United Kingdom’s Liam Fox, Kenya’s Amina Jibril, and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad Al-Tuwaijri.

The trio did not secure enough support in the second round of consultations, the report said Wednesday evening.

Mrs Okonjo-Iweala was Nigeria’s finance minister during the tenures of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan. She has experience working at international international governance bodies as a former managing director of the World Bank and as a chairman at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.

Ms Yoo, on her part, is South Korea’s trade minister. She has helped expand her country’s trade network through bilateral accords with the U.S., China and the UK.

Should the two women be announced to have advanced to the final round of the selection process, the WTO would have its first female director-general in its 25-year history.

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At the end of the selection exercises, if the WTO members are unable to select a leader by consensus, a vote requiring a qualified majority could be held as a last resort.

However, this would be an unprecedented development for the 25-year-old organization.

The third and final phase of the consultation process will begin later this month and run until November 6, after which the WTO will endeavor to name a consensus winner of the race.

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