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|image = Jim Yong Kim 2015.jpg |office = 12th President of the World Bank Group |term_start = July 1, 2012 |term_end = |predecessor = Robert Zoellick |successor = |office1 = 17th President of Dartmouth College |term_start1 = July 1, 2009 |term_end1 = June 30, 2012 |predecessor1 = James Wright |successor1 = Philip Hanlon |birth_date = |birth_place = Seoul, South Korea |death_date = |death_place = |citizenship =United States |spouse = Younsook Lim |children = 2 |alma_mater = Brown University Harvard University |party = Democratic }} Jim Yong Kim MD, PhD, also known as Kim Yong (; born December 8, 1959), is an American physician and anthropologist who has served as the 12th President of the World Bank since July 1, 2012. A global health leader, he was formerly the Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a co-founder and executive director of Partners In Health before serving as the President of Dartmouth College from 2009 to 2012, becoming the first Asian American president of an Ivy League institution. Kim was named the world's 50th most powerful person by Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People in 2013.〔http://www.forbes.com/pictures/lmh45kjle/no-50-jim-yong-kim/〕 ==Background== 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, president of his class, 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 an A.B. 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.〔Falkenberg, Kai, ("First Responder" ), ''Forbes'', November 16, 2011.〕 He was among the first enrollees of Harvard's experimental MD/PhD program in the social sciences. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jim Yong Kim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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