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Jim Yong Kim

New World Bank president sits down with foundations

3 Penelope Lewis 5 October 2012

In the midst of a frenetic week of meetings, including bilaterals with heads of state, the Clinton Global Initiative and media interviews, the new World Bank president Jim Yong Kim stepped into the calm of …


What will Jim Yong Kim’s World Bank role mean for philanthropy?

Peter Laugharn 26 April 2012

It’s not often that I wake up to hear the name of someone I know well on all the morning news programmes, but it happened last month with President Obama’s nomination of Jim Yong Kim …