Nigeria’s candidate: Technical skill won’t solve WTO problems

If all the World Trade Organization needed to solve its problems were people with technical negotiating skill, those issues would already be resolved, Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said on Tuesday, arguing that political experience is a key requirement of the WTO’s next director-general. Okonjo-Iweala touted herself as the only director-general candidate with significant multilateral organization experience, a deep political network and a history of delivering “bold reforms.” Nigeria’s former finance minister and former number two at the World Bank is one...