The selection process to choose the next secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development started on Wednesday with the publication of the names naming of the six candidates vying in a race still considered wide open.

Candidates from Australia, France, Japan, Mexico, Poland and South Korea have been announced and they will now engage in a beauty contest, trying to win support of the 30 member governments of the Paris-based OECD. The choice will be made by consensus decision in December.