世界商业报道[biz.icxo.com]消息：世界银行执行董事会25日一致同意美国总统布什提名前美国副国务卿佐利克出任世行行长，接替将于六月底离职的现任行长沃尔福威茨。
佐利克将于七月一日正式就任，任期五年，他是世银第十一位行长。
现年五十三岁的佐利克毕业于哈佛大学，曾任美国贸易代表及副国务卿等职位，卸任公职后，出任高盛投资银行副董事长。
Robert Zoellick, a seasoned player in international financial and diplomatic circles, won the unanimous approval of the World Bank’s board on Monday to become the poverty-fighting institution’s next president.
Zoellick will succeed Paul Wolfowitz, whose last day is Saturday, ending a stormy two-year tenure. The new president will take the reins Sunday, the first day of his five-year term.
“I am ready to get to work,” Zoellick declared, shortly after the board’s action.
Wolfowitz courted controversy from the start because of his role in the Iraq war when he was deputy defense secretary. However, it was his role in arranging a hefty pay raise for Shaha Riza, his girlfriend and bank employee, that forced his upcoming departure. That prompted a staff revolt and calls by Europeans and others for Wolfowitz to resign.
President Bush turned to Zoellick — his former top trade envoy and No. 2 diplomat— to the heal wounds and mend the relationships strained by the Wolfowitz episode. Welcoming the board’s action Monday, Bush called Zoellick “a dynamic leader who is deeply committed to the mission of the World Bank.”
Zoellick, 53, brings to the World Bank years of experience in the foreign and economic policy arenas under three Republican presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. Zoellick left the Bush administration last year to become an executive at the Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs.
