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Managing Director of the World Bank; Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) First interim World Bank Group president born outside United States First World Bank Group president born in Europe First World Bank Group president from Germany: 9 James Wolfensohn: June 1, 1995 – May 31, 2005 United States [a]
Pages in category "Presidents of the World Bank Group" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
He was the director for Sustainable Development in the Middle East and North Africa Region during 2012–2014. [1] He served as the Chief of Staff to the World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim since January 2016. [1] On September 1, 2016, he started serving as the country director for the World Bank in India replacing Onno Ruhl. [4]
Uganda joined the World Bank on September 27, 1963, along with the IBRD, IDA and IFC. It later joined the ICSID on October 14, 1966, and the MIGA on June 10, 1992. [1] Uganda also holds the chair for the 22 nation Africa Group 1 Constituency, headed by Anne Kabagambe. [2] Uganda holds 0.07% [3] of the vote in the IBRD while its constituency ...
The World Bank was created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, along with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The president of the World Bank is traditionally an American. [12] The World Bank and the IMF are both based in Washington, D.C., and work closely with each other.
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. The World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corp., have financed governments and companies accused of human rights violations such as rape, murder and torture.
The World Bank Institute is the capacity development branch of the World Bank, providing learning and other capacity-building programs to member countries. The IBRD has 189 member governments, and the other institutions have between 153 and 184. [2] The institutions of the World Bank Group are all run by a board of governors meeting once a year ...
In the spring of 2011, the World Bank urged Kenya’s finance ministry to end the evictions until the bank could help the government work out a plan for addressing the Sengwer’s concerns. According to bank officials, Kenyan authorities agreed to stop the evictions until they found new land where the Sengwer could relocate.