Friday 20 April 2012

The New President of The World Bank ,

The    U S  policy   is   Interest   and   Interest  to   nominate   the  new  President  of   worled   bank  .   
Three candidates have been nominated to replace Robert Zoellick.
The US has nominated Jim Yong Kim (born December 8, 1959) He is a Korean-American physician and 17th President of Dartmouth College. He was formerly the Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and was a co-founder and executive director of Partners in Health. In 2009, Kim was named the 17th President of Dartmouth College. Kim is the first Asian-American to assume the post of president at an Ivy League institution. Kim immigrated to the U.S. at age five, earned an undergraduate degree from Brown University and picked up a medical degree and doctorate in anthropology at Harvard University.
Some African countries (South Africa, Angola and possibly Nigeria) have nominated Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born June 13, 1954) was appointed in July 2011 as the new Minister of Finance for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Prior to this appointment, she was the Managing Director of World Bank (October 2007 – July 2011). She served as finance minister from July 2003 until her appointment as foreign minister in June 2006, and as foreign minister until her resignation in August 2006. She was educated at Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude with an A.B. in 1977, and earned her Ph.D. in regional economic development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1981.
Brazil has nominated a Colombian citizen, José Antonio Ocampo Gaviria (born 20 December 1952). He is currently Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs and director, Economic and Political Development Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Prior to his appointment, Ocampo served in a number of positions in the United Nations and the Government of Colombia, most notably in the United Nations as Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and Executive Secretary for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and in Colombia as Minister of Finance and Public Credit and Minister of Agriculture. Graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1971 with B.A.s in Sociology and Economics, in 1976 he received his Ph.D from Yale University
Are any of these candidates up to the challenges that the World Bank presents? Arguably, there is no human being in the world who is fully equipped to resolve the issues now facing the World Bank. It is what is sometimes known as a widow-making job, i.e. a job in which the incumbent is almost doomed to fail

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