an anti-climax after all that Summers/Sachs tumult? On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Robert Naiman <[email protected]> wrote: > Health groups appear to be very, very jazzed. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/24/business/global/dartmouth-president-is-obamas-pick-for-world-bank.html > > March 23, 2012 > Dartmouth President Is Obama’s Pick for World Bank > By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr. > WASHINGTON — President Obama is nominating Jim Yong Kim, a physician > who has been president of Dartmouth College for three years, to head > the World Bank, the White House said Friday. > > The nomination of Dr. Kim, who helped found Partners in Health and > directed the World Health Organization’s department of H.I.V./AIDS, > would recognize the importance of health issues in global development, > elevating them to parity with finance. His work has emphasized > bringing effective medicine to the poor. > > The choice was a surprise. Leading candidates had included Laura > D’Andrea Tyson, an economist and former head of the President’s > Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration. Unlike > recent World Bank presidents, Dr. Kim is not a former banker or policy > maker in the United States government. > > President Obama was to make the announcement at the White House Friday > morning before leaving for a summit meeting in South Korea tonight. > > Dr. Kim will not be the only candidate for the World Bank job. On > Friday morning, Angola, South Africa and Nigeria put forward the name > of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Nigerian finance minister and former World > Bank official. > > 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 at the age of 5. He graduated from Brown University > in 1982, earned an M.D. from Harvard University in 1991 and a Ph.D. in > anthropology there in 1993. > > He was the first Asian-American to head an Ivy League institution. > > The nomination was first reported by The Associated Press and > confirmed by White House officials. > > > -- > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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