Nigeria’s star economist and renowned technocrats of global reputation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has scored a double almost on the same day with her appointments to the economic advisory board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and that of the African Union (AU)
No sooner had the Managing Director of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva appointed the Nigeria’s two-term Minister of Finance and former Managing Director (Operations) of the World Bank, to serve as a member of her newly established External Advisory Group than the AU Chairman and South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa pronounced her AU special Envoy on economy.
At the AU job, Okonjo-Iweala
would work to mobilise International support for Africa’s efforts to address the economic challenges African countries will face as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
She holds the two appointments at the same time in addition to her earlier appointment by South Africa to head her economy strategy team.
Already, the astute economist serves on the economic board of Twitter and was in October 2016 appointed to serve as director of economic advisory at the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)