Ngozi Okonjo Iweala's Top 10 Rules for Success

Here's are the rules for success from one of Africa's most successful economists and development experts.

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1. Africans in the diaspora should come back and set up businesses
2. Fighting corruption comes with big personal costs
3. Africans should applaud their governments' efforts
4. African countries should learn to manage their success
5. We will have to solve Africa's problems ourselves
6. Good public policy alone cannot deliver results we need
7. Public-Private partnerships are essential to improve the education sector
8. A slimmer and better paid civil service is the way to go
9. Strong economies are a pre-requisite for any regional or even for a continental unified currency area
10. Manage your finances well

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 13 June 1954) is a Nigerian-born economist and international development expert. She sits on the Boards of Standard Chartered Bank, Twitter, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), and the African Risk Capacity (ARC)

Previously, Okonjo-Iweala spent a 25-year career at the World Bank as a development economist, scaling the ranks to the Number 2 position of Managing Director, Operations (2007–2011). She also served two terms as Finance Minister of Nigeria (2003–2006, 2011–2015) under the leadership of President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan respectively.

Okonjo was the first woman to become Finance Minister of Nigeria, and first woman to become Finance Minister of Nigeria twice. In 2005, Euromoney named her global finance minister of the year

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