2022 World Cup Painted Ball

Christiane Amanpour

Amanpour is a British-Iranian reporter and TV host. She is the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International’s nightly interview show Amanpour. She also runs the Amanpour & Company programs on PBS. She was previously the host of the global affair for ABC News in the United States. She is one of the journalists who is most followed by world leaders on Twitter. Amanpour has an Iranian father and a British mother.

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the seventh Director-General of the WTO and the first woman and the first African to serve as Director-General.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 13 June 1954) is a Nigerian-American economist, fair trade leader, environmental sustainability advocate, human welfare champion, sustainable finance maven and global development expert. Since March 2021, Okonjo-Iweala has been serving as Director-General of the World Trade Organization. Notably, she is the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization as Director-General. She sits on boards of: Danone, Standard Chartered Bank, Twitter, MINDS: Mandela Institute for Development Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, One Campaign, GAVI: Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, Rockefeller Foundation, R4D: Results for Development, ARC: African Risk Capacity and Earthshot Prize plus others

Okonjo-Iweala was the first Nigerian woman to serve two terms as Finance Minister of Nigeria. Subsequently, from June to August 2006, she served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nigeria. In 2005, Euromoney named her Global Finance Minister of the Year.

Sarah bint Yousef Al Amiri (born 1987) is the Minister of State for Advanced Technology within the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology in the government of the United Arab Emirates, chair of the UAE Space Agency and the UAE Council of Scientists, and Deputy Project Manager of the Emirates Mars Mission.