How did Paul Wolfowitz become head of the World Bank in the first place?

[Eric J in MN]

Do they rotate between UN members, and it happened to be the US's turn to have a US citizen as the head?

[Captain Angry]

1. Nope, there was an interview process.

Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina was in the running at one point for instance.

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2. Nominated by the United States, approved by members.

As the largest financial stakeholder in the World Bank, the U.S. gets to choose the nominee.

[Eric J in MN]

3. Thanks. NT

NT

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6. I picked up a lot of information from this article

Last week's New Yorker, a profile of Wolfowitz and his tenure at the WB:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/09/070409fa_fact_cassidy/

[AlCzervik]

4. an article from march of 05

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4396107.stm

[Patsy Stone]

5. Bush nominated him.

From the WaPo, March, 2005: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41350-2005Mar16.html

"European countries control about 30 percent of the votes on the bank's board; opponents would be able to fight the nomination if they chose to do so. By tradition, the United States, the bank's largest shareholder, selects the president, while Europeans choose the head of the bank's sister institution, the International Monetary Fund."

[stellanoir]

7. Because he displayed his astute economic wisdom by assuring us all that the

Iraq war would pay for itself.

And he's notably excelled at comb licking of course.

/sarcasm

[Parisle]

8. He is still part of the "plan"

--- The neocon agenda included the continued credit- and resources-rape of the third world. The PNAC likes to have things in the hands of their own.

[johnnydrama]

9. jobs

No Bush appointee has to actually know anything about the job they are about to get.

They'd hire Michael Jordan to teach at the football academy.