World Bank nominee's rap video

World Bank
Barack Obama
Jim Yong Kim
World
Saturday 24 March 2012 at 2:13pm

Jim Yong Kim has been nominated by Barack Obama to be the next World Bank president. Credit: YouTube

US President Barack Obama has nominated Dartmouth College president Jim Yong Kim to be the next president of the World Bank.

Current World Bank President Robert Zoellick is retiring from the post in June. Historically, the World Bank President has come from the US, while Europe has named the head of the IMF.

Kim is a physician and anthropologist who was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1959. His family moved to the US when he was five.

During his time as Dartmouth president, Jim Yong Kim has shown his funny side, appearing in a music video with the 'Dartmouth Idol' finalists. His rapping begins three minutes in: