Hey there, it's Stephen Dovner.

On January 7th came surprising news out of Washington, as if any news out of Washington

isn't surprising these days, but World Bank President Jim Young Kim announced his resignation,

which was surprising considering he had a few years left on his term.

The news ahead will be about his replacement, and President Trump's historical antipathy

toward organizations like the World Bank.

In the meantime, we thought you might like to hear this episode from 2015 when we interviewed

Kim for Freakin' I'm X Radio.

We called this episode Hacking the World Bank.

Back in 2012, Jim Young Kim was mining his own business, carrying out his duties as President

of Dartmouth College.

He was in his third year there, and then his phone rang, and he learned that the President

of the United States wanted to hire him away.

Quite literally on a Monday, a Dartmouth graduate from 1983, Tim Geithner called me and said,

Jim, would you consider being President of the World Bank?

This is the work that I devoted my entire life to, and development and fighting poverty.

And so I called the chair of my board right away, and I said, you know, the President's

asking me to consider this.

I have to do it.

And so that was a Monday.

I flew down and met with President Obama on a Wednesday.

Did you know him previously?

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