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.

That 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 finding poverty.

And so I called the chair of my boy right away, and I said, the president's asking me to

consider this, I have to do it.

So that was a Monday.

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

Did you know him previously?

I had met him once before, but my first sit down meeting with him was in the Oval Office

to talk about this particular job.

And then on that Friday, we were in the Rose Garden, and he was announcing me as the

U.S. candidate.

When a nation goes from poverty to prosperity, it makes the world stronger and more secure

for everybody.

That's why the World Bank is so important, and that's why the leader of the World Bank

should have a deep understanding of both the role the development plays in the world,

and the importance of creating conditions where assistance is no longer needed.

I believe that nobody is more qualified to carry out that mission than Dr. Jim Kim.

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