Managing Director, World Bank
Born in 1954, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala studied economics at
Harvard University, then earned a Ph.D in regional economics and
development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1981. She joined the World Bank, where she was to spend 21 years
as a development economist. She became intimately familiar with
the economies of East Asia, putting in two tours in the region,
and acting as Country Director for Malaysia, Mongolia, Laos and Cambodia....
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