Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is currently Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance. From December 2007 to August 2011, she was Managing Director of the World Bank. Before that, she was Nigeria’s Finance minister for three years and was briefly Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Dr. Okonjo-Iweala is a member or chair of numerous boards and advisory groups, including the ONE Campaign, the Rockefeller Foundation, amongst others. She has also served on the advisory board of the Clinton Global Initiative.

Dr. Okonjo-Iweala was educated at Harvard University and has a PhD in regional economics and development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the President of the Italian Republic Gold Medal by the Pia Manzu Centre in 2011, and honorary doctorates from several universities, including Trinity College Dublin, Brown University, Amherst College, and the University of Pennsylvania. She is named on the Time 100 Most Influential list in 2013, and has been on the Forbes 100 most Influential Women list since 2010.