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Jim Yong Kim
Jim Yong Kim, also known as Kim Yong, is an American physician and anthropologist who was the president of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019.
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science · American physician (born 1959) · physician · anthropologist · politician · university teacher · also Jim Yong Kim, Gim Yong, H.E. Jim Yong Kim, Kim Yong, Kim
Born 8 December 1959 · Q313297
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2024· 1 entry
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2021· 1 entry
An independent inquiry revealed that World Bank leaders, including Kim, pressured bank staff to alter data to inflate the rankings of China, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
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2020· 1 entry
Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,054 times.
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2019· 2 entries
Kim announced that he would step down as president, effective February 1, 2019
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Published “Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 14,540 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Kim was reappointed as the World Bank president, for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2017
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2015· 2 entries
Published “HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements” in Nature Methods — cited 22,123 times.
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Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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2014· 1 entry
From the staff led by Senior Country Officer Fabrice Houdart after awarding a very unusual bonus, eventually deemed unethical to his CFO, Bertrand Badré, eventually rescinding it and apologizing publicly
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Prince Mahidol Award (2013).
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2012· 3 entries
The World Bank officially elected Kim president
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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
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Career landmark: President of the World Bank Group (2012–2019).
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2011· 2 entries
A handful of editorials appeared in Dartmouth's student newspaper expressing dissatisfaction with Kim's presidency, with one calling him "unpopular among many students these days
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Kim was criticized for refusing to release the college's budget, prompting the passage of a resolution by faculty demanding more details
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2009).
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Kim was chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human
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2005· 1 entry
And in 2006 was listed as one of the top 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine
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2003· 2 entries
To join the World Health Organization (WHO) as an adviser to the director-general
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Was named one of America's 25 Best Leaders by U
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1999· 1 entry
Published “Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae” in The Astrophysical Journal — cited 15,633 times.
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1993· 1 entry
Kim was a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, eventually holding professorships in medicine, social medicine and human rights
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1991· 1 entry
And a PhD in anthropology at Harvard University in 1993
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1959· 2 entries
Born 1959-12-08.
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Jim Yong Kim immigrated with his family to the U
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