Jim Yong Kim is President, World Bank
Group. Prior to this, he was President of Dartmouth College (United States).
Dr. Kim is a co-founder of Partners In Health (PIH) and a former director
of the HIV/AIDS Department at the World Health Organization (WHO). Before
assuming the Dartmouth presidency, Dr. Kim held professorships and chaired
departments at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health
and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. He also served as Director of
Harvard’s François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights.
A physician and anthropologist, Dr. Kim has dedicated himself to international
development for more than two decades, helping to improve the lives of
under-served populations worldwide.
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