Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, the CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation is urging Ghana, which holds the Chair of the African Union “to play a leadership role in quickly mobilizing an African position on the selection of a new World Bank president” Continue reading →

Joseph Stiglitz, former World Bank chief economist urged the Financial Services Committee in the US Congress : “The choice of a successor to outgoing bank president Paul Wolfowitz should be open and transparent with the most qualified people available regardless of race, gender or nationality,” Continue reading →

Bloomberg is reporting that , according to Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, “Zoellick’s odds of getting the job are 13-8, better than U.S. deputy Treasury secretary Robert Kimmitt at 7-4” Continue reading →

In this post I mentioned and did comment that Carly Fiorina should not be considered for the position of the Prez of the WB. Indeed she had what she called “a successful career” at AT&T/Lucent but that was mainly in Sales and Marketing. Some of us know how the revenues brought by a good account and a good contract can benefit the head honcho and spiral his/her career in the world of backslapping industrial sales. Continue reading →

The heroic Internal Communications team that is monitoring the internal bulletin boards is cracking down on comments posted about the Bank’s senior management. Two postings about General Counsel Ana Palacio’s flouting of the Staff Rules about political activities, including one with a link to worldbankpresident.org were removed, without acknowledgement. Another has just gone up, but how long will it stay?

By contrast, a posting on the EXT at 10:10 Washington time was still there two hours later. It asks pointed questions about what was going on while Kevin Kellems was running the Bank’s communications shop. Some very interesting issues (reformatted for easier reading): Continue reading →