PHM-Exch> World Bank selects Dr. Jim Yong Kim as President

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ellen Shaffer <ershaffer at cpath.org>
From: Peter Maybarduk pmaybarduk at citizen.org

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World Bank’s Executive Directors Select Dr. Jim Yong Kim 12th President of
the World Bank Group****

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*WASHINGTON, April 16, 2012 -* The Executive Directors met today to select
a new President of the World Bank Group. The Board expressed its deep
gratitude for *Mr. Robert B. Zoellick’s* outstanding leadership and his
dedication to reducing poverty in its member countries, the core mandate of
the World Bank Group.

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The Executive Directors followed the new selection process agreed in 2011
which, for the first time in the Bank’s history, yielded multiple nominees.
This process included an open nomination where any national of the Bank’s
membership could be proposed by any Executive Director or Governor,
publication of the names of the candidates, interviews of the candidates by
the Executive Directors, and final selection of the President.****

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The Executive Directors selected *Dr. Jim Yong Kim as President* for a
five-year term beginning on July 1, 2012. The President is Chair of the
Boards of Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). The
President is also ex officio Chair of the Boards of Directors of the
International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment
Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the Administrative Council of the
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).****

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We, the Executive Directors, wish to express our deep appreciation to all
the nominees, Jim Yong Kim, José Antonio Ocampo and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Their candidacies enriched the discussion of the role of the President and
of the World Bank Group’s future direction. The final nominees received
support from different member countries, which reflected the high caliber
of the candidates. We all look forward to working with Dr. Kim when he
assumes his responsibilities.****

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Dr. Jim Yong Kim is currently President of Dartmouth College. A U.S.
national, Dr. Kim is a co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH) and a former
director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization
(WHO). Before assuming the Dartmouth presidency, Dr. Kim held
professorships at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public
Health. He also served as chair of the Department of Global Health and
Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of the Division of Global
Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and director of the François
Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of
Public Health.****

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Dr. Kim was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship (2003), was named one
of America’s “25 Best Leaders” by US News & World Report (2005), and was
selected as one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the
World” (2006). He was elected in 2004 to the Institute of Medicine of the
National Academy of Sciences—one of the highest honors in the fields of
health and medicine—for his professional achievements and commitment to
service. He has published widely over the past two decades, authoring or
co-authoring articles for leading academic and scientific journals,
including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and Science.****

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Born in 1959 in Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Kim moved with his family to the
United States at the age of five and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. Dr. Kim
graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1982. He earned a
medical doctorate from Harvard Medical School in 1991 and a Ph.D. in
anthropology from Harvard University in 1993. He is married to Dr. Younsook
Lim, a pediatrician. The couple has two young sons.****

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*Contacts:* ****

*In Washington:* David Theis, (202) 458-8626, dtheis at worldbank.org ****

*For Broadcast Requests*: Natalia Cieslik, (202) 458-9369,
ncieslik at worldbank.org****
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