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Okonjo-Iweala gets new IMF appointment

Nigeria’s former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was on Friday named a member of the External Advisory Group constituted by the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva.

The group of prominent individuals from around the world are to serve as the IMF chief’s special advisers that would provide insights to enhance the fund’s ability to serve its membership.

They consist mainly of high-level technocrats and policy experts with private sector experience.

The new external advisory group, inaugurated on Friday in Washington DC, is to also provide perspectives from around the globe on key developments and policy issues.

The issues include responses to the exceptional challenges the world now faces due to the novel coronavirus and its economic impact on member countries.

“Even before the spread of Covid-19 and the dramatic health, economic, and financial disruptions it has brought, IMF members confronted a rapidly evolving world and complex policy issues,” the IMF boss, Ms Georgieva, said.

“To serve our membership well in this context, we need top-notch input and expertise from the widest range of sources, inside and outside the Fund.

“Toward this end, I am proud that an exceptional and diverse group of eminent individuals with high-level policy, market, and private sector experience has agreed to serve on my External Advisory Group.

“Today, we had a dynamic discussion to gain their insights, and to receive informal reactions to our ideas and approaches,” she added.

Apart from Mrs Okonjo-Iweala, who is also a former Vice President of the World Bank, other members of the advisory group include a Senior Minister of Singapore and Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, and a Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kristin Forbes.

Others are former Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd; former United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Mark Brown; Honorary Chair, DSM and former CEO, Royal DSM, Feike Sijbesima; a Professor, University of Chicago, Raghuram Rajan; Group Executive Chairman, Santander, Ana Botín, and a Professor at Harvard University, Carmen Reinhart.

The Chief Economic Adviser, Allianz, Mohamed El-Erian; the Chief Investment Officer and head of Guggenheim Investments, Scott Minerd, and the Chair of ActionAid International, Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, are also members.

The advisory group will be meeting a few times a year with the IMF’s Managing Director, Deputy Managing Directors, and a sub-set of IMF department directors to discuss policy issues affecting member countries.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/387141-okonjo-iweala-gets-new-imf-appointment.html

Hausa Fulani woman is the deputy secretary-general of the United Nations we never hear noise.

INFERIORITY COMPLEX EVERYWHERE

Basic123:
Hausa Fulani woman is the deputy general of the United Nations we never hear noise.

INFERIORITY COMPLEX EVERYWHERE

I dnt want to wish u evil

Big sister keep making us proud we ogwashi people are behind you





I still remain Ada ogwashi

this woman is blessed

Basic123:
Hausa Fulani woman is the deputy general of the United Nations we never hear noise.

INFERIORITY COMPLEX EVERYWHERE

DAT BUHARI APPPOINTMENT, BAH?



U MUST HEAR NOISE.



THIS APPOINTMENT IS NOT GODFATHER GIVEN BUT MERIT.



IGBO AMAKA

Congratulations to her

Congratulations ma, but I would have been happier if in your times as Finance minister, you initiated diversification of Nigerian economy.

Having studied the terrain in your first stint under Pres. Obasanjo, one had expected concrete action on diversification in your second stint as coordinating minister of cabinet/Finance Minister of Finance under Pres. Jonathan. Things could have been a lot better if you did that but all is now history. You are certainly world famous but you have few legacies at home.

Wishing you all the best, still.

Why always Igbos?

This woman keep peppering haters with more success.

By the way, wheres Kemi Adeosun the certificate forger?

hammer0:
DAT BUHARI APPPOINTMENT, BAH?



U MUST HEAR NOISE.



THIS APPOINTMENT IS NOT GODFATHER GIVEN BUT MERIT.



IGBO AMAKA

Still add ogwashi Amaka there





I still remain Ada ogwashi

She is making waves

I wanted to say Igbo Amaka but I won't

Abeg who can tell us where Madam Kemi Adeosun dey now for UK

Hausa fulani that dont sent their female ward to school, Josephine Mohammed is a half Nigeria and half briton.

Basic123:
Hausa Fulani woman is the deputy general of the United Nations we never hear noise.

INFERIORITY COMPLEX EVERYWHERE

Basic123:
Hausa Fulani woman is the deputy general of the United Nations we never hear noise.

INFERIORITY COMPLEX EVERYWHERE

It looks as if you hate good news

Every appointment okonjo iweala will accept it, this woman lack any iota of shame

Asquare84:
Every appointment okonjo iweala will accept it, this woman lack any iota of shame

Quit Nairaland for a month.

You need rest.

Our president 2023

Basic123:
Hausa Fulani woman is the deputy general of the United Nations we never hear noise.

INFERIORITY COMPLEX EVERYWHERE

Shut up ! With out being appointed by Buhari who'll know here ! This is about merits, not tribalism or nepotism the way it's done in this country.....

festacman:
Congratulations ma, but I would have been happier if in your times as Finance minister, you initiated diversification of Nigerian economy.

Having studied the terrain in your first stint under Pres. Obasanjo, one had expected a concrete action in your second stint as coordinating minister of cabinet/Finance Minister of Finance under Pres. Jonathan. Things could have been a lot better if you did that but all is now history. You are certainly world famous but you have few legacies at home.

Wishing you all the best, still.

He performed better under jonathan

Congratulations ma.

Keep soaring higher

bigpicture001:
He performed better under jonathan

Of course, she was a super minister and had more free hand.

Asquare84:
Every appointment okonjo iweala will accept it, this woman lack any iota of shame

Hehehehe

See bile!

Kotun Quam Afolabi,
Rahman A. Hammed,
Olaoluwa Araoye.
May d good Lord bless u richly. For the little u have done out of ur goodwill to help a brother, the almighty Lord will be there for you at ur time of need and also for others that wished to but for one reason or the other which is understandable.... My happiness is with people like u in this country there is still hope.
May God bless us all.

Up up u go...

Gbam. This woman was appointed for her competence and expertise then as an African to give the team a diasporan look. So those of u engaging in tribal gymnastics are just wasting their time. Tribalism is for poor peeps.

Igbo Amaka

Bad Belle must hate..
They said she's a liar at her at her age but they are the real liars stereotyping people while she grows from height to height..

Congrats Man. Wailers over to you

Thumbs up to this great woman. Proud to be a Nigerian

The Finance Minister who did not save a cent from the Oil windfall from 2010 to 2014 when a barrel of oil was over $100/barrel.

Rather, the Excess Crudeoil Account was ran down from $20b to $2b, and foreign reserve ran down from $47b to $29b. Also ensuring to borrow more money at a time we should have been saving more than what OBJ and Yar'Adua were able to save during less buoyant economic period.

And just 9months after the Crude Oil price began dipping from $100/barrel towards $50/barrel, she shamelessly admitted that the Jonathan led Federal Government had already borrowed N470b ($2.5b as at that time) to pay salaries of federal civil servants for February, March, and April 2015.

All she had to her credit was warning that a recession was coming, forgetting she was in the driving seat to make a change as the Finance Minister and coordinating Minister of the economic team that failed the nation.

What a shame!

Basic123:
Hausa Fulani woman is the deputy general of the United Nations we never hear noise.

INFERIORITY COMPLEX EVERYWHERE

So who's making noise

Who's suffering from inferiority complex

Hope you're not suffering from paranoia and persecution complex bro.

Suggesting you seek psychiatric assistance is not an unfriendly piece of advice.