The US nominated Jim Yong Kim to be the World
Bank President for a second term, saying he has “ably led” the global
development lender’s response to major crises and helped it focus on
innovative ways to challenge issues like poverty and climate change.
“I
am proud to announce that today the United States has nominated World
Bank President Jim Yong Kim for a second term,” the US Treasury Secretary
Jacob J Lew said.
“President Jim Yong Kim has used his first
term to focus the World Bank on effectively addressing today’s most
pressing global development challenges in innovative ways, from ending
extreme poverty and tackling inequality, to combating climate change,”
he said in a mid-night statement.
The US is the World Bank’s largest shareholder.
Lew said Jim Yong Kim has also “ably led” responses to major crises, including
battling the Ebola pandemic and addressing the refugee crisis.
“In
addition, President Kim spearheaded needed reforms at the World Bank to
better leverage knowledge within the Bank and enhance the use of the
financial resources that shareholders provide,” he said.
Re-electing Jim Yong Kim will allow the World Bank to continue to build on these important initiatives and reforms, Lew added.
Jim Yong Kim,
who became the 12th President of the World Bank Group on July 1, 2012
is a physician and anthropologist, who dedicated himself to
international development for more than two decades, helping to improve
the lives of under-served populations worldwide.
Prior
to the Bank, Jim Yong Kim served as President of Dartmouth College, a pre-eminent
centre of higher education that consistently ranks among the top
academic institutions in the United States.
Jim Yong Kim is a co-founder of Partners In Health (PIH) and a former
director of the HIV/AIDS Department at the World Health Organisation
(WHO).
Jim Yong Kim was born in 1959 in Seoul, South Korea and moved with his family to the US at the age of five and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa.
Jim Yong Kim graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1982.
He earned an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1991 and a Ph.D. in
anthropology from Harvard University in 1993.
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