The new president of the World Bank will be the candidate of the United States, 52-year-old medical student at Dartmouth College and rector of Jim Yong Kim. According to ITAR-TASS reported with reference to informed sources, Jim Yong Kim was elected to the Board of Directors of the World Bank and will lead him to the 2017.
Kim will also become head of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). The term of incumbent President Robert Zoellick, World Bank Americans expire on June 30. Jim Yong Kim, who is now 52 years old, was born in Seoul, at the age of 5 years was brought to the United States. A doctor by training, Professor, has long headed the department of international health and social medicine at Harvard. From July 2009 is the rector of Dartmouth College - one of the oldest universities in the United States, entering the elite Ivy League.
Note that since the inception of the World Bank in 1944, he has always been headed by U.S. citizens, while the head of the International Monetary Fund was chosen representative in Europe.
