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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/24/business/global/dartmouth-pre
WASHINGTON – The White House on Friday named Jim Yong Kim, the president of
Dartmouth College and a global health expert, as its nominee to lead the
World Bank.
That makes Dr. Kim the frontrunner to take the helm of the multinational
development institution on June 30, when its current president, Robert B.
Zoellick, will step down at the end of his five-year term. Tradition has
held that Washington selects the head of the bank and Europe its sister
institution, the International Monetary Fund, since their founding during
World War II.
Dr. Kim’s name was closely held and not among those widely bandied about
since Mr. Zoellick announced his plans to move on. Dr. Kim, highly respected
among aid experts, is an anthropologist and a physician who co-founded
Partners in Health, a nonprofit that provides health care for the poor, and
a former director of the Department of H.I.V./AIDS at the World Health
Organization.
“The leader of the World Bank should have a deep understanding of both the
role that development plays in the world and the importance of creating
conditions where assistance is no longer needed,” President Obama said
Friday. “It’s time for a development professional to lead the world’s
largest development agency.”
Dr. Kim, who was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2003, was
born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1959 and moved with his family to the United
States when he was five. He graduated from Brown University in 1982, earned
an M.D. from Harvard University in 1991 and received a Ph.D. in anthropology
there in 1993.
He was the first Asian-American to head an Ivy League institution when he
took the post in 2009.
While working with Partners in Health in Lima, Peru, in the mid-1990s, Dr.
Kim helped to develop a treatment program for multidrug-resistant
tuberculosis, the first large-scale treatment of this disease in a poor
country. Treatment programs for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis are now in
place in more than 40 nations, according to Dr. Kim’s biography on
Dartmouth’s Web site. He Kim also spearheaded the successful effort to
reduce the price of the drugs used to treat this form of tuberculosis.
Dr. Kim’s ascension to the head of the bank is not a sure thing. But the
United States supported the candidacy of Christine Lagarde, the former
French finance minister, to head the I.M.F. last year, presumably assuring
that Europe will support Dr. Kim’s nomination.
In recent years, major emerging economies have criticized the decades-old
gentlemen’s agreement giving the United States control of the World Bank’s
presidency. The Group of 20 countries has called for a fairer, more
transparent selection process for the top posts at the World Bank and the I.
M.F., and the World Bank itself has reaffirmed its commitment to an open and
merit-based process.
Dr. Kim, as an American, will not escape some of that criticism. But his
background working in poorer countries may partially insulate him, and Mr.
Obama was reportedly drawn to him in part because of his work fighting
tuberculosis and AIDS.
In addition, powerful emerging market countries, like Brazil and China, have
failed to rally around a single, viable candidate since the announcement of
Mr. Zoellick’s departure.
But Mr. Kim will not be the only candidate for the World Bank job. On Friday
, Angola, South Africa and Nigeria put forward Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the
Nigerian finance minister and former World Bank official.
José Antonio Ocampo, the former finance minister of Colombia and a United
Nations official, is rumored to be another candidate.
Jeffrey Sachs, the development economist and director of the Earth Institute
at Columbia University, has put himself forward for the position and won
the support of some developing countries, including Kenya, although the
United States is not supporting his candidacy.
The World Bank will stop accepting nominations at 6 p.m. Eastern time Friday
. If there are more than three candidates, the board will name a short list
shortly thereafter. The bank has said it intends to have selected its new
president by the time of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund
spring meetings in April.
The bank provided $57.4 billion in support to low-income and middle-income
countries last year. Under Mr. Zoellick’s leadership, the bank raised an
additional $90 billion for its fund for the world’s poorest. It also opened
up huge troves of data to the public to aid research on development and
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