WTO chief prepares for new fight with Donald Trump – POLITICO

This view is not limited to Trump allies either. Harry Broadman, a former trade official under the Clinton administration, said: “Ngozi was a World Bank guy, a treasury guy, not a trade guy.”

“She's smart, she's very good, you know, diplomatic, but there are very few people who have the arcane understanding of the WTO,” he said.

Still, her supporters like her focus on development. The British ambassador to Geneva, Simon Manley, praised their “forward-looking agenda for green digital services and inclusive trade” and stressed that he had rarely met “anyone so committed, so hard-working, so visionary and so connected”.

British Trade Secretary Douglas Alexander, an old colleague of hers at the World Bank, emphasized “her ongoing concern for the interests of the global South as well as her insights as a former finance minister.”

“We see her as the right woman, in the right place at the right time,” he told POLITICO.

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As she eyes a second term, questions remain as to whether Okonjo-Iweala's term has brought significant progress.