Ivanka Trump to help choose candidate for World Bank
— President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka will help the United States choose its candidate to lead the World Bank but she will not be the one, the White House said on Monday.
Jim Yong Kim abruptly announced last week that he would cut short his tenure as president of the Washington-based global development lender more than three years before his second term was to end.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney “have asked Ivanka Trump to help manage the U.S. nomination process as she’s worked closely with the World Bank’s leadership for the past two years,” said Jessica Ditto, the White House Deputy Director of Communications.
However, Ditto said reports that Ivanka Trump “is under consideration are false.” London’s The Financial Times reported on Friday that both Ivanka Trump and Washing- ton’s former United Nations a mbas s a d o r Nikki Haley were among possible U.S. candidates to replace Kim.
Other names being floated include Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs David Malpass and Mark Green, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the newspaper reported.
Through an unwritten post-war agreement with Europe, the World Bank has always been led by an American while a European has always been in charge of the IMF.
However, that is likely to face a serious challenge both because President Trump has shown little interest in, if not antagonism to the Bank, and has upended the traditional alliances that make the agreement possible.