Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim (@JimYongKim), M.D., Ph.D., is the 12th President of the World Bank Group. Soon after he assumed his position in July 2012, the organization established two goals to guide its work: to end extreme poverty by 2030; and to boost shared prosperity, focusing on the bottom 40% of the population in developing countries. In September 2016, the World Bank Group Board unanimously reappointed Kim to a second five-year term as President.
During his first term, the World Bank Group supported the development priorities of countries at levels never seen outside a financial crisis and, with our partners, achieved two successive, record replenishments of the World Bank Group’s fund for the poorest. The institution also launched several innovative financial instruments including facilities to address infrastructure needs, prevent pandemics, and help the millions of people forcibly displaced from their homes by climate shocks, conflict, and violence.
Kim’s career has revolved around health, education, and improving the lives of the poor. Before joining the World Bank Group, Kim, a physician and anthropologist, served as the President of Dartmouth College and held professorships at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. From 2003 to 2005, as director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department, he led the “3 by 5” initiative, the first-ever global goal for AIDS treatment, which greatly to expand access to antiretroviral medication in developing countries. In 1987, Kim co-founded Partners In Health, a non-profit medical organization that now works in poor communities on four continents.
Kim has received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, was recognized as one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report, and was named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.”
- Hacia una economía más inclusiva y conectada
- Vers une économie interconnectée et inclusive
- Toward a linked and inclusive economy
- 迈向连通和包容经济
- نحو اقتصاد مترابط وشامل للجميع
- 投资妇女和女童 构建更光明的未来
- To build a brighter future, invest in women and girls
- Para construir un futuro mejor, se debe invertir en las mujeres y las niñas
- Investissons dans les femmes et les filles pour construire un avenir meilleur
- الاستثمار في النساء والفتيات من أجل مستقبل أكثر إشراقا
- Le big data et l’internet des objets au service de la lutte contre la pauvreté
- Usar los macrodatos y el internet de las cosas para ayudar a poner fin a la pobreza
- 利用大数据和物联网助力消除贫困
- استخدام البيانات الكبرى وإنترنت الأشياء للمساعدة في إنهاء الفقر
- In Senegal, a call to invest in people and the planet
- En Senegal, se insta a invertir en la gente y en el planeta
- Un appel lancé depuis le Sénégal : il faut investir dans le capital humain et la protection de la planète
- في السنغال، انطلاق دعوة إلى الاستثمار في البشر والكوكب
- 什么事让世界银行行长晚上睡不着觉?
- What keeps the President of the World Bank up at night?
- ¿Qué desvela al presidente del Banco Mundial?
- ما الذي يبقي رئيس البنك الدولي مستيقظا في الليل؟
- Ces questions qui me taraudent
- 健康与国富
- La salud y la riqueza de las naciones