25 November 2020(2020-11-25) (aged 86) New York City, New York, U.S.
Spouse
Elaine Botwinick
(m. 1961; died 2020)
Relations
Edward Botwinick (brother-in-law)
Children
3
Education
University of Sydney (BA, LLB) Harvard University (MBA)
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Sir James David WolfensohnKBE, AO (1 December 1933 – 25 November 2020) was an Australian-American lawyer, investment banker, and economist who served as the ninth president of the World Bank Group (1995–2005). During his tenure at the World Bank, he is credited with the focus on poverty alleviation and a rethink on development financing, earning him recognition as a banker to the world's poor. In his other roles, he is credited with actions that brought Chrysler Corporation back from the brink of bankruptcy, and also improving the finances of major United States cultural institutions, including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. He served two terms as President of the World Bank on the nomination of U.S. President Bill Clinton, and thereafter held various positions with charitable organizations and policy think-tanks including the Brookings Institution.
He was born in Sydney, Australia, and was a graduate of the University of Sydney and Harvard Business School; he was also an Olympic fencer. He worked for various companies in Britain and the United States before forming his own investment firm. Wolfensohn became an American citizen in 1980 and renounced his Australian citizenship, although he eventually regained it in 2010.
Sir James David Wolfensohn KBE, AO (1 December 1933 – 25 November 2020) was an Australian-American lawyer, investment banker, and economist who served...
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actions that would hinder the realization of a two-state solution. JamesWolfensohn, the former president of the World Bank, was appointed Special Envoy...
supposedly in exchange for World Bank President JamesWolfensohn's re-appointment – an exchange that Wolfensohn denies took place. Whether Summers ever made...
two entertainers and was adopted as a baby by the Glasgow shipyard worker James Blair and his wife, Mary. Hazel Corscadden was the daughter of George Corscadden...
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estimated $11 million, to Wolfensohn Capital Partners, a private equity firm founded by former World Bank president JamesWolfensohn. In 2009, it acquired...
and called on the institution to "strengthen anti-corruption efforts". James Ferguson has argued that the main effect of many development projects carried...
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discussed. In attendance was the Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and JamesWolfensohn, then President of the World Bank, who is a close associate of the...
Julius Tahija, Edo de Waart, Malcolm Williamson, Googie Withers and JamesWolfensohn Fred Hollows, then a New Zealand citizen, was offered an honorary Officership...
Picture Association of America. Its 2000 nomination was Australian-born JamesWolfensohn, constitutionally ineligible for election to the U.S. presidency. In...
mandatory retirement age of 70. In October 1999 Thiam was appointed by JamesWolfensohn as one of 20 members of the External Advisory Council of the World...
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United States and launched by the World Bank and its former president, JamesWolfensohn in 1997, is a coalition of civil society organizations, their governments...
the Palestinian Authority. International bodies, and pressure from JamesWolfensohn, Middle East envoy of the Quartet, who gave $500,000 of his own money...
persecution of independent journalists", and World Bank president JamesWolfensohn called Sharif to urge Sethi's release. On 1 June, authorities charged...
Bank would not like to shut down operations in Russia." In June 1995 JamesWolfensohn, who later became a president of the World Bank, wrote a memo that...
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