In the Wall Street Journal today, Drew Hinshaw and Sudeep Reddy, take a look at Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s record and her chances.
Ngozi’s statement to the board of the World Bank
I worked very hard to get this, but I think after the US Treasury Department made Kim’s statement to the board public, its only fair to also hear what Ngozi and Ocampo had to say.
Here is Ngozi’s statement in full below, and I will post Ocampo’s as soon as I get it. Continue reading
Closing ranks
It seems to me that unless the developing countries, including the BRICS, close ranks behind one of their two candidates, Ngozi or Ocampo, they will all lose any legitimacy in calling for a merit based selection process with no regard to national origin. If this does not happen very soon, I don’t see a reason for any of the industrial nations to take them seriously enough to not vote with the US for Dr. Kim, or pay attention to any of their other demands for that matter.
I wonder if the non-biased observers on this blog have any thoughts on that.
Jim Yong Kim weak on whistleblower protections at Dartmouth
Please find below a guest post from Bea Edwards, Executive Director at Government Accountability Project (GAP) in the United States, who analyses Jim Yong Kim’s support of fraternities at Dartmouth.
As president of Dartmouth University, Jim Yong Kim, presides over extreme, traumatizing, pervasive, revolting and potentially illegal hazing at fraternities. Andrew Lohse, the whistleblower who exposed it, is now, alone among those charged with misconduct, on the brink of expulsion.
Janet Reitman of Rolling Stone investigated Dartmouth’s infamous fraternity system and described the violence, class privilege and ritual abuse that fraternity initiaties (pledges) must survive in order to join the clubs. In this forum, we don’t want to Continue reading
Who came up on top?
I’m already hearing from sources who attended the three interviews over the last three days that Ngozi has come up as the top candidate, followed closely by Ocampo, with Dr. Kim a distant third. Three things have worked for Ngozi to push her over Ocampo, she knows the bank inside-out, has experience on both sides of the table – a client and world banker-, and that she is an African woman supported by the whole African Union. This, if selected, will make her not only the first non-American to head the bank, but also the first woman, and first African. In the words of the Economist, “May the best woman win”