The Associated Press has reported that President Barack Obama will nominate Jim Yong Kim, M.D. '91, Ph.D. '93, as the next president of the World Bank (a post for which Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Eliot University Professor Lawrence H. Summers, a former Secretary of the Treasury and Harvard's president from 2001 to 2006, had been rumored as candidates). Kim, a co-founder with Kolokotrones University Professor of global health and social medicine Paul Farmer of Partners In Health, became president of Dartmouth College on July 1, 2009. There, drawing on his background at the World Health Organization and Partners in Health, he made global health a new institutional priority.
Harvard alumnus Jim Yong Kim nominated to lead World Bank
Harvard alumnus, now Dartmouth College president, takes on a new global role.
Jim Yong Kim
This report was updated at 4:15 p.m. to reflect corrections in Harvard's alumni records.
Related topics
You might also like
The University will compensate families of those whose remains were sold and establish a scholarship to honor anatomical donors.
After a final round of layoffs, University leaders say 165 staff jobs were eliminated across the division.
A roundup of University news from the summer of 2026
Most popular
Explore More From Current Issue
The Gretel and the Great War author on how the Lampoon derailed his science career—and set him on a literary path.
Plus, veteran higher education leader Thomas Ehrlich reflects on university curricula for his 70th reunion
A College student’s attempt to recapture the romanticism of the workplace.