Jim Yong Kim

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Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim (born December 8, 1959 in Seoul ) is a South Korean - American medic and medical anthropologist . From July 1, 2012 to February 1, 2019, he was President of the World Bank .

Surname

Kim during the 2013 WEF

Jim Yong Kim is an American name in the usual Western order first name - middle name - family name. His first name Jim is not Korean, but English. In Korean , his name is just 김용 Kim Yong (family name prefixed, as is common in East Asia).

Life

Adolescence, graduation

Jim Yong Kim came to the United States with his family from South Korea at the age of five and grew up in the small town of Muscatine in southwest Iowa . His father, a dentist, taught at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City , where his mother received her PhD in philosophy. Kim first attended Muscatine High School , studied for a year and a half at the University of Iowa and then moved to Brown University , a private elite university in Providence , Rhode Island . There he achieved his bachelor's degree in 1982 with magna cum laude .

Partners in Health

Together with Paul Farmer , Todd McCormack , Thomas J. White and Ophelia Dahl (daughter of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal ) he founded the non-profit organization Partners in Health (PIH; German: Health Partner ) in Boston in 1987 and was temporarily its managing director . PIH is dedicated to preventive health care for the poor worldwide and has advised Haiti , Peru , Russia , Rwanda , Lesotho and Malawi on the development of preventive health concepts in the past , but is also active in the USA.

promotion

Kim received his medical doctorate ( MD ) in 1991 from Harvard Medical School in Boston , Massachusetts , and his research doctor ( Ph.D. ) in anthropology in 1993 from its parent university , the private Harvard University in Cambridge .

Kim during the 54th MSC 2018

World health organization

Jim Yong Kim is an expert on tuberculosis (TBC). He was chairman of various committees on international TBC policy and did research primarily on strategies for combating standard drug-resistant TB strains. He initially worked for the World Health Organization (WHO) as an advisor to Director General Lee Jong-wook , who also came from South Korea and was a TBC specialist. From 2004 to 2006 Kim served under him as director of the WHO HIV / AIDS division . During this time he launched an ambitious program to fight AIDS.

Professorship, college president

From 2006 to 2009 Kim was Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of World Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School .

On March 2, 2009, Dartmouth College , which belongs to the so-called Ivy League of elite universities, named Kim its 17th president; he took office on July 1, 2009 and held it until the end of June 2012. He was the first American from Asia to become president of one of the Ivy League's elite US universities.

World bank

On March 23, 2012, Kim was nominated by then US President Barack Obama to succeed Robert Zoellick in the position of President of the World Bank . For the first time since the World Bank was founded, however, its own candidates were nominated from the group of emerging countries : the Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the former Colombian finance minister José Antonio Ocampo (who later withdrew his candidacy). The World Bank Executive Council agreed on Kim in mid-April 2012. He was the favorite because the US had the largest share of the vote and was supported by Europe and Japan. According to previous practice, the USA always provided the World Bank President and Europe in return the Chairman of the International Monetary Fund . After Kim took up a second five-year term on July 1, 2017, he announced in early January 2019 that he would be stepping down on February 1, 2019 to move into the private sector. World Bank manager Kristalina Georgiewa will initially take over management, and on February 5, 2019 , US President Donald Trump introduced the economist and state secretary at the Treasury Department David Malpass as the designated successor .

family

Kim is married to a pediatrician at Boston Children's Hospital and has two sons.

Awards

Kim received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003 . In 2005, the US News & World Report named him one of America's 25 Best Leaders. Time magazine listed him among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006. The Institute of Medicine , one of the US National Academies , accepted him as a member. In 2010 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 2013 he received the Prince Mahidol Prize .

Web links

Commons : Jim Yong Kim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ President Obama Nominates Dartmouth College President to Lead World Bank , The White House , March 23, 2012, accessed March 23, 2012
  2. ↑ Remarks by the President on the Nomination of Dr. Jim Kim for World Bank President , The White House, March 23, 2012, accessed March 23, 2012
  3. ↑ Further candidates for the office of World Bank President , nzz Online , March 24, 2012, accessed on March 24, 2012
  4. ↑ World Bank chief Kim resigns. Spiegel Online , January 7, 2019, accessed on the same day.
  5. ^ Marc Pitzke, New York: Trump's World Bank candidate Malpass: The arsonist as fire chief . In: Spiegel Online . February 7, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Kim, Jim Yong
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 김용 (Korean, Hangeul); 金 墉 (Korean, Hanja); Gim, Yong (Revised Romanization); Kim, Yong (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Korean-American medic, medical anthropologist and university president
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul