Jim Yong Kim

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Full Name	Jim Yong Kim
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Dec 8, 1959(1959-12-08)
Age	65
Birthplace	Seoul
Country	South Korea
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Jim Yong Kim Biography

Jim Yong Kim is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on December 8, 1959 in Seoul, South Korea. A former anthropologist and doctor who was chosen in 2009 by Former anthropologist and physician who was elected by Barack Obama to be president of the World Bank. He was previously the seventeenth president of Dartmouth college from 2009 to 2012. to as head of the World Bank. He was also the 17th presidant of Dartmouth college from 2009 until 2012.

He was chosen by He was nominated by Barack Obama to replace Robert Zoellick of the World Bank. to succeed Robert Zoellick of the World Bank.

Jim Yong Kim (Korean: 짐용김 ; born December 8, 1959), also known as Kim Yong (김용 /金墉), is a Korean-American physician and anthropologist who served as the 12th President of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019. On January 7, 2019, he announced that he would be stepping down, effective February 1, 2019.

Jim Yong Kim, along with Paul Farmer, Todd McCormack, Thomas J. White, and Ophelia Dahl, co-founded Partners In Health (PIH) in 1987. The organization began with radical new, community-focused health care programs in Haiti, which provided treatments based on local needs and trained community members to implement them. By the early 1990s, the program in Haiti was serving more than 100,000 people. It achieved success treating infectious diseases at low cost, spending $150 to $200 to cure tuberculosis patients in their homes, treatment that would have cost $15,000 to $20,000 in a U.S. hospital. Kim was instrumental in designing treatment protocols and making deals for cheaper, more effective drugs.

Two children live together with wife Younsook Lim, who is a pediatrician.

Jim Yong Kim Net Worth

Jim Yong Kim is one of the richest Politician from South Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jim Yong Kim 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student at Brown as well as Harvard University, where he did his research in the social sciences.

His presidency was first by an Asian American president at the Ivy League institution.

Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1959, Jim Yong Kim immigrated with his family to the U.S. at the age of five and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. His father taught dentistry at the University of Iowa, while his mother received her PhD in philosophy. Kim attended Muscatine High School, where he was valedictorian, class president, and played both quarterback for the football team and point guard on the basketball team. After a year and a half at the University of Iowa, he transferred to Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in human biology in 1982. He was awarded an M.D. at Harvard Medical School in 1991, and a PhD in anthropology at Harvard University in 1993. He was among the first enrollees of Harvard’s experimental MD/PhD program in the social sciences.

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Who is Jim Yong Kim Dating?

According to our records, Jim Yong Kim married to Younsook Lim. As of December 1, 2023, Jim Yong Kim’s is not dating anyone.

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Kim left PIH in 2003 to join the World Health Organization (WHO) as an adviser to the director-general. In March 2004, he was appointed as director of WHO’s HIV/AIDS department, after having success creating programs to fight the disease at PIH. Kim oversaw all of WHO’s work related to HIV/AIDS, focusing on initiatives to help developing countries scale up their treatment, prevention, and care programs. This included an ambitious “3×5 initiative” that was designed to put three million people in developing countries on AIDS treatment by the end of 2005. The goal was not met until 2007, but according to the WHO, served to push the treatment strategy for AIDS in Africa further and faster than could have otherwise been hoped. As of 2012, the program has treated more than 7 million Africans with HIV.

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Jim Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Korea. Jim Yong Kim celebrates birthday on December 8 of every year.

In March 2009, Kim was named the 17th President of Dartmouth College, becoming the first Asian-American to assume the post of president at an Ivy League institution. He oversaw the development of several innovative programs at Dartmouth, utilizing his past experience in health care and international affairs. In January 2010, Kim helped partner Dartmouth students and faculty with the organization he co-founded, Partners In Health, and other organizations, to respond to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, forming the Dartmouth Haiti Response. The initiative resulted in over $1 million in donations, the delivery of 18 tons of medical supplies and 25 volunteer medical professionals to Haiti, as well as hundreds of student volunteers contributing on campus. In April 2010, Kim launched the National College Health Improvement Project (NCHIP), which convenes a number of expert institutions to develop quantitative methods to address student health issues. The project launched its inaugural program, an effort to address binge drinking, in April 2011. In May 2010, Kim helped secure a $35 million anonymous grant to establish the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science. The Center creates a groundbreaking new field of graduate study, fostering international collaboration between researchers and medical practitioners to design, implement, and scale new models of high-quality low- cost care. In 2012, following considerable concern and an extended effort by Kim to address sexual violence on campus, Dartmouth adopted a new campus-wide initiative to educate students on the importance of bystander intervention in sexual assault cases as part of a larger Sexual Assault Awareness Program.

Top Facts about Jim Yong Kim

1. Jim Yong Kim is a Korean-American physician and anthropologist.
2. He served as the 12th President of the World Bank Group.
3. Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1959.
4. He graduated from Brown University and Harvard Medical School.
5. Kim co-founded Partners In Health, a global health organization.
6. He was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship in 2003.
7. Kim served as President of Dartmouth College from 2009-2012.
8. He has been recognized for his work on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
9. Kim resigned from the World Bank Group in January 2019.
10. He currently serves as Vice Chairman at Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP).