Friday, April 20, 2007

First Muslim and first non-American to head up the World Bank?

TIMESONLINE: The future of Paul Wolfowitz, the embattled President of the World Bank, was in further jeopardy last night after it emerged that the White House was drawing up a list of candidates to succeed him.

Most prominent on th list is Ashraf Ghani, the man credited with overhauling the economy of Afghanistan after September 11, The Times has learnt. Such an appointment would mark the first time a nonAmerican has held the position in the 60-year history of the global lender. Bush draws up list of candidates to replace Wolfowitz by Gabriel Rozenberg

Mark Alexander