Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's vision of the world bank

The financial times today contains a tribune from Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala a Nigerian political woman who was educated at Harvard, MIT and represents the changing face of the World Bank. She is currently the Finance Minister of Nigeria. Her interview with the institution was held yesterday. 


As she writes, nearly 70 years after the creation of the World Bank the world has changed. Where emerging countries were once dependent on the World Bank they have grown to be world powers and real players on the international economic scene.  

The other two candidates are José Antonio Ocampo, a Columbian economist and political figure who is currently a Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs and Director of the Economic and Political Development Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. His interview is being held today. 


The final candidate is Jim Yong Kim a Koran-American physician who is the incumbent President of Dartmoth  College, the first Asian-American to assume the post of president in an Ivy League institution. His interview will be held tomorrow. 


After first hearing the news that Jeffrey Sachs contemplated this role, another American in a long line,  (apart from one American-Australian, James Wolfensohn) how things have changed in the last few weeks. The future of the World Bank is surely changing and it will certainly start from within.