Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D., became the 12th President of the World Bank Group on July 1, 2012. [Terms of Appointment]

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. Dr. Kim comes to the Bank after serving as President of Dartmouth College, a pre-eminent center of higher education that consistently ranks among the top academic institutions in the 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).  

As President of Dartmouth – an institution that comprises a liberal arts college and professional schools of medicine, engineering and business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences, a staff and faculty of 3,300, and a budget of $700 million – Dr. Kim earned praise for reducing a financial deficit without cutting any academic programs. Dr. Kim also founded the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, a multidisciplinary institute dedicated to developing new models of health care delivery and achieving better health outcomes at lower costs.

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.

In 1987, Dr. Kim co-founded Partners In Health, a Boston-based non-profit organization now working in poor communities on 4 continents. Challenging previous conventional wisdom that drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS could not be treated in developing countries, PIH successfully tackled these diseases by integrating large-scale treatment programs into community-based primary care.

As Director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS Department, Dr. Kim led the ‘3 by 5’ initiative, the first-ever global goal for AIDS treatment, which sought to treat 3 million new HIV/AIDS patients in developing countries with antiretroviral drugs by 2005. Launched in September 2003, the ambitious program ultimately reached its goal by 2007.

Dr. Kim’s work has earned him wide recognition. He was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship (2003), was named one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report (2005), and was selected as one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” (2006).

Born in 1959 in Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Kim moved with his family to the United States at the age of five and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. Dr. Kim graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1982. He earned an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1991 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 1993.

Jim Yong Kim Net Worth, Biography, Wiki 2017-2016

Jim Yong Kim was born on 8 December 1959, in Seoul South Korea. Known also as Kim Jong, he is the President of the World Bank, and in such an important position that in 2015 Forbes magazine ranked Kim as the 45th most powerful person in the world.

So just how rich is Jim Yong Kim? Sources estimate that Kim’s net worth is over $5 million, however, his could change momentarily as from his position as head of the World Bank, Kim receives a direct salary of $500,000, plus benefits.

Jim Yong Kim Net Worth $5 Million

Jim Yong Kim moved to the USA with his family when he was five years old, and they settled in Iowa, where his father taught dentistry. Kim was educated at Muscaline High Schooll, and then graduated with an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1991, and a PhD in anthropology from Harvard University in 1993.

Kim has been extremely busy during his working life. He co-founded Partners-in-Health (PIH) in 1987, which initially concentrated on treating common infectious diseases in the home at minimal cost in comparison to hospitalisation, firstly in Haiti and then other countries, and extremely successfully. Kim Jong then joined the World Health Organisation in 2003 as advisor to the director, and subsequently being appointed head of the HIV/AIDS department the following year, introducing programs which PIH had developed, again with considerable success, such that the incidence of the disease dropped significantly in the next five years.

Concurrently, Kim had been lecturing at Harvard Medical School since 1993, eventually holding professorships in medicine, social medicine and human rights. At the time of his eventual departure in 2009, Kim held positions as Chairman of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Director of the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. Specific details of his remuneration for these positions over a period of more than 20 years are vague, but they certainly added considerably to his net worth.

In 2009, Kim Jong was appointed to the Presidency of Dartmouth College, the first Asian American to hold such a post in an Ivy League university. During his tenure of three years, Kim directed the development of several innovative programs, calling on his considerable experience in health care and international affairs to promote success again, in these important areas of international concern.

In 2012, President Obama nominated Jim Yong Kim for the position of President of the World Bank, Citing HIS experience in international affairs and his hands-on approach to health problems around the world. He was subsequently elected the 17th, President, the first not to have a substantial background in either politics or finance, but conversely the first to have first-hand knowledge of health issues in developing countries.

As head of the World Bank, Kim controls a budget of more than $40 billion a year, which is utilised on developmental programs in more than 188 countries. As part of a long overdue efficiency drive, he recently announced plans to cut administrative costs by $400 million, reorganizing the bank’s infamous bureaucratic structure.

In his personal life, Jim Yong Kim is married to Younsook Lim, and the couple has two children.

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How rich is Jim Yong Kim?

Jim Yong Kim net worth:
$5 Million

Jim Yong Kim's salary (annual):
$500,000

Jim Yong Kim information

Jim Yong Kim information

Birth date:	December 8, 1959
Birth place:	Seoul, South Korea
Profession:	President of the World Bank
Education:	Muscatine High School, Brown University, University of Iowa, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
Nationality:	American
Spouse:	Younsook Lim
Parents:	Oaksook Kim, Nhak Kee Kim
Awards:	MacArthur Fellowship

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World Bank president nominee is former UI student

Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the World Bank, is a former student of the University of Iowa and son of a onetime member of the College of Dentistry faculty.

Kim, currently president of Dartmouth College, studied at the UI from the summer of 1978 to December 1979, in the College of Engineering. He then transferred to Brown University during his sophomore year, receiving a B.A. from Brown and an M.D. from Harvard.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1959, Kim grew up in Muscatine before coming to the UI. His father, Nhak Kee Kim, was a dentist and taught as a part-time clinical instructor in the UI College of Dentistry from 1971 until 1983, and co-founded the Iowa Society of Periodontology. He passed away in 1987. His mother, Oaksook Kim, received a Ph.D. in philosophy from UI.

A public health expert, Kim taught at Harvard Medical School and was director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department before becoming Dartmouth president in 2009.

Enrique Carrasco, a law professor and director of the UI Center for International Finance and Development, says he is an unusual pick in that past World Bank leaders have had political or financial backgrounds, not health and education.

"President Obama’s nomination of Dr. Kim for the Presidency of the World Bank is an interesting pick," says Carrasco. "Dr. Kim’s development expertise, particularly in public health, and his Korean heritage may dampen the criticism of the archaic tradition that has granted the United States the privilege of appointing an American to the post."

Carrasco also suspects politics played a role in the nomination.

"In an election year, this is probably the best the Obama administration could do to heed the call for an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process that the World Bank has endorsed," he says. "An important question is whether Dr. Kim will be able to lead and manage the World Bank effectively. Will he be a good fit for the institution? His work with the World Health Organization should address some of the concern in this regard."

If approved by the World Bank board, Kim will replace Robert Zoellick, whose term is expiring in June.