World Bank’s Executive Directors Select Dr. Jim Yong Kim 12th President of the World Bank Group

WASHINGTON, April 16, 2012 - The Executive Directors met today to select a new President of the World Bank Group. The Board expressed its deep gratitude for Mr. Robert B. Zoellick’s outstanding leadership and his dedication to reducing poverty in its member countries, the core mandate of the World Bank Group.   The Executive Directors followed the new selection