predecessor successor birth_place president party office address term_start birth_date image article_title term_end name alma_mater
olusegun adeniji olutoyin aganga adamu ciroma olusegun olutoyin aganga oluyemi nenadi usman joy ogwu ogwashi-ukwu , delta state , nigeria goodluck jonathan olusegun obasanjo goodluck jonathan olusegun obasanjo people 's democratic party minister of foreign affairs of finance coordinating minister for the economy minister 27 live way garki abuja -lrb- f.c.t -rrb- 11 21 june 2006 july 2011 15 july 2003 11 july 2011 13 june 1954 okonjo-iweala , ngozi -lrb- 2008 portrait -rrb- . jpg ngozi okonjo-iweala
 29 30 august 2006 may 2015 21 june 2006 29 may 2015 ngozi okonjo-iweala harvard university massachusetts institute of technology
ngozi okonjo-iweala

ngozi okonjo-iweala -lrb- born 13 june 1954 -rrb- is a globally renowned nigerian economist best known for her two terms as finance minister of nigeria and for her work at the world bank , including several years as one of its managing directors -lrb- october 2007 -- july 2011 -rrb- .
she briefly held the position of foreign minister of nigeria in 2006 .
in 2007 , okonjo-iweala was considered as a possible replacement for former world bank president paul wolfowitz .
subsequently , in 2012 , she became one of three candidates in the race to replace world bank president robert zoellick at the end of his term of office in june 2012 .
on 16 april 2012 it was announced that she had been unsuccessful in her bid for the world bank presidency , having lost to the us nominee , jim yong kim .
this outcome had been widely anticipated .
however , this was the first contested election for world bank president after the demise in 2010 of the gentlemen 's agreement that the us would appoint the world bank president and europe would appoint the managing director of the international monetary fund .
