The Director-General of World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has announce her intention to go for a second term. She told Reuters this on Monday. According to the DG, she will seek another four-year term as head of the World Trade Organization following a broad Africa-led push to start the process early.
“I would like to be part of this chapter of the WTO story and I stand ready to compete for the position,” Okonjo-Iweala told Reuters, citing a letter she plans to send to the trade body’s main decision-making body on Monday.
“For my second term, I intend to focus on delivering,” she added, saying among the priorities were addressing “unfinished business” including a deal on ending fisheries subsidies and reaching a breakthrough in global agriculture negotiations.
