Nigeria's Former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has expressed optimism about becoming the Director-General of the World Trade Organization. Okonjo-Iweala, in a video on her Twitter handle, described the WTO as an organization that has become more important than ever. According to her, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world needs to come together using trade to build a better society. She will be competing for the post alongside five other candidates which include South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee; Kenya’s former foreign minister Amina Mohamed; Mexico’s former WTO deputy director-general Jesus Seade Kuri; Egyptian former diplomat Hamid Mamdouh; and former Moldovan foreign minister Tudor Ulianovsch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices