Category: Speeches

18 April 2022 Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. Bom dia! I have it on good authority that it is Foreign Minister Carlos Alberto França’s birthday. So let me start by wishing His Excellency many happy returns of the day. It’s an honour to be here at the Rio Branco Institute. Over the course of my career,…

Thank you. It is an honour to address the participants and audience for this Leverhulme Lecture and Distinguished Experts Dialogue. I campaigned for WTO Director-General on a promise to bring a fresh pair of eyes and ears to the organization. Many of you have, in your own writing on law and economics, put forward ideas…

Date: October 19, 2019Author: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala0 Comments The Changing Face of Poverty: Can Africa Surprise the World? The Robert McNamara Lecture Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala October 15, 2019 Harvard Kennedy School of Government Opening remarks Thank you all very much. It is a great pleasure to be here today and a true honor to have been invited to follow…

Development: Towards 21st Century Approaches Speech by Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala December 4th 2017 2017 Mitchell Oration – Crawford School of Public Health Development Policy Centre, Australian National University, Canberra Opening remarks Thank you very much, Harold Mitchell, Vice Chancellor Prof Brian Schmidt, Professor Stephen Howes and Professor Michael Wesley for your kinds words, and for such…

Enabling Development: When can Technology be Effective? Speech by Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala November 13, 2017 Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development Opening remarks Thank you very much. It gives me great pleasure to be here tonight and I am truly honoured to have been invited to speak at the launch of this extraordinary new…

Breakthroughs in Development Speech by Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala August 2, 2017 Madeleine K. Albright Global Development Lecture Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado, USA Opening remarks I am delighted to be here today. I am extremely honoured to have received this recognition and been invited to give this year’s Madeleine K. Albright Global Development Lecture. It is…

August 3, 2016 Joseph Mubiru Lecture by Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala [Pleasantries] 1. Let me start by offering my warm congratulations to the Bank of Uganda on its 50th Anniversary! This auspicious occasion is a good time to take stock of how far we have come and the challenges we confront as the journey continues. We…

2015 Holt Distinguished Lecture Series The University of Pennsylvania Law School September 30, 2015 Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed an honour to be back here at UPENN to deliver this year’s Holt Lecture at the Law School which has since the 19th century distinguished itself as the bedrock of the American legal profession. First,…

The Oppenheimer Lecture The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Wednesday, June 19, 2013 I am deeply honoured by the invitation extended to me by Dr. John Chipman and the IISS to deliver this year’s Oppenheimer Lecture, even moreso as most of my predecessors have been Heads of State. So at least for an evening,…

Reforming Nigeria’s Education System: Paradigm Shift Keynote Speech at the 2012 Isaac Moghalu Foundation LectureCivic Center, Victoria Island, LagosThursday July 12, 2012 Introductory Remarks Ladies and gentlemen, we live in troubled times. The countries that used to lead the development of the globe can no longer do so. The Eurozone’s economy is set to contract…