12th President of the World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim is a global visionary devoted to improving the lives of people in developing countries and championing the cause of global health. Renowned for his pioneering approaches to tackling global health issues, education, and economic development, at the World Bank, Kim re-defined the institution's work to amplify the voices of the world's poor, vowing to end extreme poverty by 2030.
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Jim Yong Kim
President, World Bank Group (2012-2019)
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12th President of the World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim is a global visionary devoted to improving the lives of people in developing countries and championing the cause of global health. Renowned for his pioneering approaches to tackling global health issues, education, and economic development, at the World Bank, Kim re-defined the institution’s work to amplify the voices of the world’s poor, vowing to end extreme poverty by 2030.
Before his time at the World Bank, Kim served as President of Dartmouth College– becoming the first Asian-American president of an Ivy League institution– and as Executive Director and co-founder of the internationally renowned non-profit medical organization Partners In Health (PIH). At PIH, Kim helped launch a movement that changed global health forever, tackling some of the world’s most difficult health problems, and proving experts wrong in what medical treatments and results are possible in communities of extreme poverty. Kim’s work at PIH has now been replicated in more than 40 countries, and is chronicled in the award-winning documentary Bending the Arc, and bestselling book Mountains Beyond Mountains. Kim also served as Chief of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department. At WHO Kim led the groundbreaking “3 by 5” initiative, the first-ever global goal for AIDS treatment.
Sought-out to speak everywhere from TED to the World Economic Forum, Kim’s ideas and efforts have changed the way the world thinks about global development. A physician and anthropologist, he is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and has been recognized as one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report, named to TIME‘s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” and listed to Forbes’ “World’s Most Powerful People.” Kim inspires people to change the world, and provides eye-opening and empowering insights on just how we can do it.
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