Jim Yong Kim – Wikipédia

Jim Yong Kim (Hanck December 8, 1959 In Seoul, is an American doctor of South Korean origin, president of the World Bank of first ^is July 2012 At January 31, 2019 .

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Born in South Korea, his family moved while he was 5 years old in Muscatine in the United States. He studied medicine and anthropology. He wrote a doctoral thesis on the role of the pharmaceutical industry in the development of Korea. His wife, Younsook Lim, is a pediatrician by profession, and they are parents of two boys.

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In 2009, he became the seventeenth president of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League University. At the head of the Dartmouth College, Kim forges a solid reputation by managing to straighten a financial situation which was in deficit, without amputating the teaching programs. With a budget of $ 700 million and 3,300 employees (teaching staff and non -teachers included), Dartmouth is a full -fledged university that provides general culture and first cycle science lessons (19 programs are offered), and which also includes schools of medicine, engineering and business administration.

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At the head of the HIV/AIDS department of WHO, he directed the initiative “3 by 5”, the first world -scale effort intended to ensure that 3 million new patients in developing countries have access to antiretroviral therapy by 2005. Launched in September 2003 , this ambitious program ended up achieving this goal in 2007.

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Appointed by Barack Obama the 23 mars 2012 ^{[ first ]} , he is elected as a presidency of the World Bank April 16, 2012 ^{[ 2 ]} , position he invested on first ^is July 2012 ^{[ 3 ]} . He is the first president of the World Bank to be neither an economist nor a diplomat. Asked in the press on the subject, he declares: “The mission of the World Bank is far too complex to be assumed by a single discipline” ^{[ 4 ]} . He presents his resignation in January 2019 , three years before the end of his mandate at the head of the institution ^{[ 5 ]} , to join the Global Infrastructure Partners Investment Fund ^{[ 6 ]} . Kristalina Gueorguieva, Managing Director of the World Bank replaces him as an interim from the first ^is February 2019 ^{[ 7 ]} ; He should also join a medical NGO that he has helped to found ( Partners in Health , based in Boston, in Massachusetts ^{[ 8 ]} ).

He obtained multiple distinctions for all of his action. He notably received the MacArthur Prize (“Geniors’ Prize) in 2003 and appeared in the list of” 25 best leaders “in the United States of the magazine of the magazine US News & World Report For 2005, as well as on the list of “100 most influential people in the world” established by the magazine Time In 2006. In 2013, he received the Prince Mahidol Prize awarded by the Thai royal family for their contributions in the field of public health.

He caused a sensation on the internet by presenting, with his students, a remarkable choreography on the tube of the Black Eyed Peas The Time (Dirty Bit) ^{[ 9 ]} .

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