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Jim Yong Kim

American physician and anthropologist
Also known as: Kim Yong
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Jim Yong Kim (born December 8, 1959, Seoul, South Korea) is an American physician and anthropologist who was the 12th president of the World Bank (2012–19). Kim’s father was a dentist, and his mother was a scholar of neo-Confucianism. When he was five years old, the family emigrated from South Korea to the United States, eventually settling in Muscatine, Iowa, where his mother completed a doctorate at the nearby campus of the University of Iowa....

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