Jim Yong Kim

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Jim Yong Kim

American physician and anthropologist

Also known as: Kim Yong

Written by Lorraine Murray

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Original name:: Kim Yong

Born:: December 8, 1959, Seoul, South Korea (age 64)

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Jim Yong Kim (born December 8, 1959, Seoul, South Korea) American physician and anthropologist who was the 12th president of the World Bank (2012–19). Kim’s father was a dentist, and his mother was a scholar of neo-Confucianism. When he was five years old, the family emigrated from South Korea to the United States, eventually settling in Muscatine, Iowa, where his mother completed a doctorate at the nearby campus of the University of Iowa. During his youth, Kim switched the order of his name to Yong Kim, according to Western style, and added the first name Jim. He was educated in ...(100 of 488 words)

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