 World Trade Organization head Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at a press conference in Geneva (Photo: Xinhua/VNA) |
The new Director-General - who is both the first woman and the first African to lead the WTO - appointed Angela Ellard of the US and Costa Rica’s Anabel Gonzalez, along with Jean-Marie Paugam of France and China’s Zhang Xiangchen.
Ellard has served in the US Congress as majority and minority chief trade counsel. Gonzalez is a senior director of the World Bank and a director of the WTO's agriculture and commodities division.
In making the appointments, Okonjo-Iweala maintained the previous balance of one deputy from China, one from the United States, one from the European Union, and one from a developing country elsewhere. Each deputy will take charge of four or five fields at the WTO, such as legal affairs, market access, development, agriculture and commodities, and intellectual property.