{"id":23586,"date":"2020-10-08T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/08\/wto-to-appoint-first-female-boss-as-shortlist-narrows-to-two"},"modified":"2020-10-08T18:56:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:56:22","slug":"wto-to-appoint-first-female-boss-as-shortlist-narrows-to-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23586","title":{"rendered":"WTO to appoint first female boss as shortlist narrows to two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With UK\u2019s Liam Fox eliminated the contest is now between Yoo Myung-hee and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala<\/p>\n<p>The World Trade Organization is set to be run by a woman for the first time in its 25-year history after it was announced that the final choice to be its new director-general will be between South Korea\u2019s Yoo Myung-hee and Nigeria\u2019s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s former international trade secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/18\/liam-fox-reaches-last-five-in-race-to-head-wto\">Liam Fox<\/a> failed to make the final shortlist as the number of candidates was whittled down from five to two.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/08\/wto-to-appoint-first-female-boss-as-shortlist-narrows-to-two\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With UK\u2019s Liam Fox eliminated the contest is now between Yoo Myung-hee and Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaThe World Trade Organization is set to be run by a woman for the first time in its 25-year history after it was announced that the final choice to be its new &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":943,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,437,558,557,400,222,42,1406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-international-trade","category-nigeria","category-south-korea","category-world-news","category-world-trade-organization"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/943"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23587,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23586\/revisions\/23587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}