World Bank president: Who is Jim Yong Kim? So, his medical experience cannot be questioned. Seemingly, neither can his leaership skills. Kim has more recently focused on improving the delivery of health programmes across the world. In doing so he co-founded the Global Health Delivery Project, a joint initiative of Harvard Medical School's Department of Social Medicine and the Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. And don't underestimate the problems of running the elite Dartmouth University in an age of budget cuts and student loan protests. It's all a long way from his roots in Seoul, South Korea, where he was born in 1959 and lived until the age of five, before moving to Muscatine, Iowa, with his family. He graduated from Brown University in 1982 and received his MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he also taught courses in anthropology, social analysis, social medicine and global health. In a WSJ Health Blog interview in 2009, Al Mulley, a Dartmouth trustee, said: "It wasn't so much his medical background that appealed to us, but rather what he has done with his medical background. He has used his intellectual inquiry to tackle some of the most complex, vexing problems across the world. Visit the World Bank website and it tells you that the organisation "offers low-interest loans, interest-free credits, and grants to developing countries. Suddenly, Jim Yong Kim seems perfect for the role.