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World Bank president to speak at ISU

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The Iowa State University College of Business will host the World Bank president, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, as the featured speaker Oct. 13 for the college’s CEO Speaker Series. His lecture, “From Muscatine to the World Bank,” will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Richard and Joan Stark Lecture Hall, 1148 Gerdin Business Building. Kim is the 12th president of the World Bank, an international financial institution founded in 1944 that offers loans, advice and a variety of resources to more than 100 countries. After graduating magna cum laude from Brown University, Kim earned a medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University. As a physician and anthropologist, Kim has dedicated himself to international development for more than two decades, helping improve the lives of populations worldwide. Previously, Kim served as president of Dartmouth College. He was a co-founder of Partners In Health, and director of the HIV/AIDS Department at the World Health Organization.