March 23, 2012
THANK YOU, MR. GEITHNER:
Obama nominates Dartmouth's Jim Yong Kim to be World Bank chief (Don Lee, March 23, 2012, LA Times)
President Obama on Friday nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim, a physician and anthropologist by training, to succeed Robert Zoellick as the next president of the World Bank.The naming of Kim was seen as a surprise. Kim, 52, though highly regarded for his leadership in global health issues, is not well known in political or financial circles. But the appointment of the South Korean-born Kim may also deflect criticisms from developing economies of the United States having a lock on the World Bank's top position.
Hanover will be happy to see his tail lights. He seriously told someone that one of his goals here was to see more ethnic restaurants open.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 23, 2012 1:43 PM
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