Mr. Paul Wolfowitz, President, World Bank

The president of the World Bank is, traditionally, an American.

In 1974 he joined the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, as vice president.

I now give the floor to Mr. Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank.

Jean Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, has called for stricter budgetary rules.

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi provided such a narrative to the financial markets last July.

The World Bank should be ashamed that its president has not yet offered a similar proposal.

In Europe, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi s guns of August turned out to be remarkably effective.

Maybe at last, the next World Bank or IMF president will come from outside their usual domains.

In 1994 he left this position to become the President of the West African Development Bank (BOAD).

The Co Chairperson (Sweden) I now call on Mr. Haruhiko Kuroda, President of the Asian Development Bank.

And US President Barack Obama did nothing when Israel refused to extend its freeze on new building construction in the West Bank, causing Israeli West Bank settlers to rejoice.

As World Bank president, Wolfensohn argued consistently that the world cannot be divided into haves and have nots.

Peter Aven, president of Alfa Bank, argues that, economically, it looks like the Soviet Union more and more.

The new governor of the Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda, comes with a wealth of experience gained in the finance ministry, and then as President of the Asian Development Bank.

After leaving the Bank of Greece in 2002, Papademos became the Vice President to Wim Duisenberg, and then Jean Claude Trichet, at the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010.

As World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has put it, climate change is a big problem with small solutions.

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi s promise to do whatever it takes has succeeded in providing a temporary calm.

The Co Chairperson (Sweden) I now give the floor to Mr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank.

Importantly, the World Bank, under its new president, Robert Zoellick, has now stepped forward to help finance this new approach.

The RFC s largest loan in the summer of 1932 was to a bank run by former Vice President Charles Dawes.

The president of the European Central Bank, as well as the International Monetary Fund, acknowledge the gravity of the problem.

The election of the Colombian Luis Alberto Moreno as president of the Inter American Development Bank had clear US backing.

The claim that the World Bank needs an American president to ensure that the US keeps donating money is ridiculous.

China also thanks Deputy Secretary General Fréchette and Mr. James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, for their respective statements.

PALO ALTO Once upon a time, European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet communicated effectively with the outside world. Not anymore.

At the end of this month, James Wolfensohn s ten year tenure as President of the World Bank comes to an end.

President Bush added that Israel should meet its road map obligations regarding settlements in the West Bank and remove unauthorized outposts .

Should Bush, a lame duck president with little support at home and less abroad, now be allowed to appoint the next World Bank president? Bush has already demonstrated his lack of judgment.

In the 1935 Act, the district heads had their titles changed to President (e.g., President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ), as part of a major shift of power to Washington.

Not the International Monetary Fund. Not the World Bank, where I worked for 21 years and rose to be a vice president.

In July 2012, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi pledged that the ECB would do whatever it takes to preserve the euro.

The charter of the First Bank of the United States was allowed to lapse in 1811 a generation later, in 1836, President Andrew Jackson successfully opposed the charter of the Second Bank of the United States.

Mario Draghi has been the president of the European Central Bank for barely a year, and the governor of the People s Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, was almost replaced when he reached retirement age in February.

Both Jean Claude Trichet, the ECB president, and Jacques Attali, the founding president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, have now called openly for the establishment of a European Ministry of Finance.

The President Mr. James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, who is unable to be in New York this morning, will be joining us via videolink, and we will now establish this link.

European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet would never allow this to happen to the ECB he manipulates markets markets don t manipulate him.

I am delighted that this message is increasingly echoed by the political mainstream, including most recently by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi.

In response to those violent incidents, President Abbas declared a state of alert and began reshuffling the security forces in the West Bank.

My delegation has taken note with keen interest of the statements of the Deputy Secretary General and the President of the World Bank.

Finally, as David de Ferranti, a former World Bank vice president, has pointed out, the Bank should expand its intellectual partnerships and engage with the highly trained professionals, consulting firms, and research institutions that emerging countries now boast.

Otaviano Canuto, a World Bank vice president, and his collaborators have just produced a long report that makes the case for this optimistic prognosis.

LONDON Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, has repeatedly claimed that the ECB will do everything necessary to save the euro.

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi s announcement last summer that the ECB would do whatever it takes to preserve the euro reassured financial markets.

The President of the Central Bank of Venezuela is presently Eudomar Tovar, who also serves as the country's representative in the International Monetary Fund.