Dartmouth president, Jim Yong Kim, to lead World Bank

President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to succeed Robert Zoellick as the head of the World Bank, picking a Korean-born former HIV/AIDS official with the World Health Organization to lead the anti-poverty institution.

"The World Bank is more than just a bank. It's one of the most powerful tools we have to reduce poverty and raise standards of living in some of the poorest countries on the planet," Obama, who heads to Seoul, South Korea late Friday for a nuclear security summit, said in the White House's sun-soaked Rose Garden.

"Nobody is more qualified to carry out that mission than Dr Jim Kim. It's time for a development professional to lead the world's largest development agency," Obama said, with Kim, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at his side. [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-picks-dartmouth-president-kim-lead-world-bank-143806760.html"]Read more[/URL]

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Ông Jim Yong Kim này kinh thiệt, viện sĩ Hàng Lâm Viện Quốc Gia Hoa Kỳ (Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 2004)

Chưa thấy ông VN nào head an Ivy League institution.