Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala |
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Birthdate | June 13, 1954 |
Birth Place | Nigeria |
Age (in 2024) | 70 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Economist |
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is best known as Economist who has born on June 13, 1954 in Nigeria. Currently, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is 70 years, 4 months and 19 days old. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will celebrate 71st birthday on Friday, 13th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala upcoming birthday.
Economist and former Nigerian Minister of Finance also known as Dr. Okonjo-Iweala. She served two terms as Minister of Finance, worked for the World Bank, and served for a brief time as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2006 before she resigned.
She attended the International School Ibadan and later Harvard University, where she graduated with honors in 1977. In 1981 she graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a PhD in regional economic development.
She was up for the presidency of the World Bank in both 2007 and 2012 but did not receive the position both times. In 2006 she resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs after she was ousted as the leader of Nigeria's Economic Team by former president Olusegun Obasanjo.
She is of the Igbo people and was born in Ogwashi-Ukwu, Nigeria, to her mother and her father who was Professor Chukwuka Okonjo, King of The Umuobi Royal Family of Ogwashi-Ukwu. She married Ikemba Iweala and they had four children.
Her son Uzodinma Iweala is a popular author and wrote the book Beasts of No Nation, which was adapted into a film by Netflix, directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Idris Elba among others.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is 70 years old today.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was born on June 13, 1954 in Nigeria.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala zodiac sign is Gemini.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was best known as Economist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1994 | A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages. |
1996 | The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents. |
1996 | Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170. |
1997 | A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. |
1999 | BMW win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Toyota being a contention for the win until a puncture in the last hour relegated it to second, Toyota not participating in Le Mans again until 2012. The race was also remembered for the flipping incidents involving the Mercedes cars, the team withdrawing mid-race and Mercedes never entering Le Mans again. |
2000 | President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang. |
2000 | Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. |
2002 | The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. |
2005 | The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of his charges for allegedly sexually molesting a child in 1993. |
2007 | The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time. |
2010 | A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback. |
2012 | A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others. |
2015 | A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police. |
2018 | Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal. |
2021 | A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others. |
1989 | The birth of Tommy Searle, English motocross racer |
1989 | The birth of Hassan Whiteside, American basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Erica Wiebe, Canadian wrestler |
1990 | The birth of James McCann, American baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor |
1991 | The birth of Will Claye, American jumper |
1991 | The birth of Ryan Mason, English footballer |
1992 | The birth of Semi Radradra, Fijian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (d. 2011) |
1993 | The birth of Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (d. 2018) |
1994 | The birth of Deepika Kumari, Indian archer |
1995 | The birth of Emily Fanning, New Zealand tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Laura Ucrós, Colombian tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer |
2012 | The death of Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (b. 1913) |
2012 | The death of Jože Humer, Slovenian composer and translator (b. 1934) |
2012 | The death of Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer for Lollywood (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of David Deutsch, American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Albert White Hat, American educator and activist (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Buddy Boudreaux, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1917) |
2015 | The death of Sergio Renán, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach (b. 1940) |
2021 | The death of Ned Beatty, American actor (b. 1937) |
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