India should take leadership role in WTO reform process: Ngozi

The WTO Chief said that India’s economy is growing at a healthy pace & it is a leader in areas such as technology

- OUR CORRESPONDENT

World Trade Organization Chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Friday said India should take the leadership role in reform process at the WTO amid growing uncertainties at global trade front.

She said that India’s economy is growing at a healthy pace and it is a leader in areas such as technology.

She said that there is a need to look at areas in the WTO which are not working and discuss ways to correct that.

“and here India can be a leader, India should be a leader in the reform process at the WTO India should be a leader in making sure that we do not stay in a system that becomes more power based instead of rules based,’ Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said here at CII’s partnership Summit 2025.

She added that India is a fast growing economy and has the scale and credibility to provide leadership not just in this region but globally.