Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been named one of 100 Global Thinkers by a respected Washington-based journal, Foreign Policy magazine.
Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala, according to a statement from the Federal Ministry of Finance, was honored alongside a group of distinguished activists, political leaders, diplomats and entrepreneurs from across the world.
The group include eminent persons as the United States President Barack Obama; French President Nicholas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister David Cameron, former American President Bill Clinton and Brazilian, President Dilma Roussef.
Other recipients include US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton; Nobel Economics laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman and former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed El Baradei.
According to the citation published in the current edition of the journal, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who also doubles as Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister of the Economy, was recognized for her role as a champion of continental economic renaissance, which has contributed significantly to putting Africa on the centre stage of global economic focus.