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Business Matters: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala named first female, African boss of WTO

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16/02/2021 GMT

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala named first female, African boss of WTO

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala named first female, African boss of WTO

History making appointment at the helm of the World Trade Organization

In her own words "history was made" today when Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala became the first woman and the first African director general of the World Trade Organization. She tells us how she plans to reform the WTO and the importance of climate change.

Also in the programme, the global economic cost of the Coronavirus pandemic will run into trillions of dollars. Could the world set up a better early warning system for future pandemics? Dr Micheal Mina, an epidemiologist based at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health is trying to do just that with the project he calls Global Immunological Observatory.

Plus, Bill Gates describes the implications of meeting the global target to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by the year 2050.

And our regular workplace commentator, Stephanie Hare talks about how to approach bereavement in the workplace.

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