Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has emerged one of the two final candidates vying to become the Director-General of the World Trade Organization ( WTO). She is standing against South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee to advance to the final round in the race to lead the Geneva-based trade body. By selecting two women as final candidates, the WTO is to have its first female DG in its 25-year history. The two emerged from an initial list of 8 candidates in a highly political and widely publicized selection process that began in May. A two-time minister in...