Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

She spent twenty-five years at the World Bank as a development economist, rising to Managing Director for Operations (2007–2011), with oversight of its operational portfolio in Africa, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia. She served twice as Nigeria's minister of finance — under President Olusegun Obasanjo (2003–2006) and under President Goodluck Jonathan (2011–2015) — the first woman to hold the post and the only finance minister to serve under two different presidents, and she was briefly foreign minister in 2006. In her first term she led the negotiation with the Paris Club that eliminated some US$30 billion of Nigeria's debt, including the outright cancellation of US$18 billion ^{1 2}.

On 15 February 2021 she was appointed Director-General of the World Trade Organization, and her term began on 1 March 2021, making her the first woman and the first African to lead the organisation; she has since been reappointed for a second term ^{1 2 3}.

Her name stands in this lane's queue, but no source used makes her a Muslim, and list membership is not evidence: the English, Arabic and Urdu articles and Wikidata state no religion for her at all — the Wikidata item carries no religion value, an unusual silence. Two attestations of a Christian affiliation exist outside them. In October 2017 Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, speaking in Lagos, named her personally: she was the first person to sit as Nigeria's director of the Islamic Development Bank, and "both of them are Christians", as reported by Punch and carried by BellaNaija — one attestation of her own affiliation, though secondhand and not her own statement. And on 25 October 2026 the Okonjo family's statement on her mother's death, naming her among the children, said "we take comfort in our Christian faith" — but that is one family text speaking for the family, carried by many outlets from a single statement, and family framing never counts as a personal attestation. One personal attestation plus family framing stands one short of the two-source bar, so this record keeps the value unknown, flagged for the founder's word, with both readings preserved ^{1 4 5 6}.

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