{"id":10763,"date":"2024-05-26T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T09:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10763"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:50:09","slug":"okonjo-iweala-dr-ngozi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okonjo-iweala-dr-ngozi\/","title":{"rendered":"OKONJO-IWEALA, Dr. Ngozi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is an Internationally Renowned Economist and a Prominent Leader. She has 30 years of significant geopolitical, economic, risk and development experience and expertise at a governmental and intergovernmental level. She was the First Female Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs respectfully in Nigeria. She served two terms as Finance Minister of Nigeria (2003-2006, 2011-2015) and also served as the  Managing Director of the World Bank (2007 -2011). During her tenure as Finance Minister, she headed Nigeria\u2019s successful program to obtain a debt relief from the Paris Club. She is credited with developing reforms that helped improve governmental transparency to stabilise and grow the Nigerian economy. In 2012, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was a candidate for president of the World Bank. She however lost to the nominee of the United States and Dartmouth College President, Jim Yong Kim. On July 19, 2018, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was named on the Board of Twitter Inc. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27025,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2403],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10763","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrator","category-economist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27646,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10763\/revisions\/27646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10763"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}