A photo of a young Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala taken while she was an undergraduate at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka with her boyfriend, Mr. Iweala.
After a few years, the two of them got married. Her husband is a neurosurgeon from Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria. The author Uzodinma Iweala is one of their four children.
