World Bank Group (WBG) President Jim Yong Kim announced on Monday that he will be stepping down from his position.

 

世界银行集团行长金墉周一宣布他将离职。

 

World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva will assume the role of interim¹ president effective Feb. 1, the World Bank said in a statement.

 

Kim's resignation from the World Bank came unexpected as he was appointed to a second five-year term as president of the multilateral development bank in 2016.

 

Kim first became the 12th president of the World Bank on July 1, 2012. Before this post, he served as president of the famous U.S. academic institution Dartmouth College.

 

"The work of the World Bank Group is more important now than ever as the aspirations² of the poor rise all over the world, and problems like climate change, pandemics, famine and refugees continue to grow in both their scale and complexity," Kim said Monday in a statement.

 

"Serving as President and helping³ position the institution squarely in the middle of all these challenges has been a great privilege," he said.

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