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9/15/2020 Challenges Facing Global Economic Development with the President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick | Humphrey School of Public Aff… Humphrey School of Public Affairs Challenges Facing Global Economic Development with the President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick From tensions over trade ballances and currency valluations to the sharp economic disparities between rich and poor countries,, glloball economic devellopment continues to face enormous challllenges.. One of the country''s most important figures in the glloball economy,, Robert Zoellliick (http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/ORGANIZATION/EXTPRESIDENT2007/0(http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/ORGANIZATION/EXTPRESIDENT2007/0 ,,contentMDK%3A21394208~menuPK%3A64822289~pagePK%3A64821878~piPK%3A64821912~the,,contentMDK%3A21394208~menuPK%3A64822289~pagePK%3A64821878~piPK%3A64821912~the SitePK%3A3916065,00.html),, president of the Worlld Bank,, discussed the current pollicy response to these challllenges.. Former Congressman Viin Weber (/directory/vin-weber)(/directory/vin-weber)moderated the discussion.. ROBERT ZOELLICK Robert Zoellllick is the current president of the Worlld Bank,, a position he has helld since Jully of 2007.. Mr.. Zoellllick has served in various positions throughout his career,, inclluding Managing Director of Golldman Sachs,, U..S.. Deputy Secretary of State,, and U..S.. Trade Representative.. From 1985 to 1988,, Zoellllick served in various positions at the Department of Treasury,, inclluding Counsellor to Secretary James Baker,, Executive Secretary of the Department,, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financiall Institutions Pollicy.. In August 1992,, Zoellllick was appointed White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President.. Mr.. Zoellllick was allso appointed Bush''s personall representative for the G7 Economic Summits in 1991 and 1992.. From 1993 to 1997,, Zoellllick served as an Executive Vice President of Fannie Mae.. Afterwards,, Zoellllick was appointed as the John M.. Ollin Professor of Nationall Security at the U..S.. Navall Academy (1997 — 98),, Research Schollar at the Bellfer Center for Science and Internationall Affairs at the John F.. Kennedy Schooll of Government,, and Senior Internationall Advisor to https://hhh-d7.prd.umn.edu/event/challenges-facing-global-economic-development-president-world-bank-robert-zoellick 1/3 9/15/2020 Challenges Facing Global Economic Development with the President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick | Humphrey School of Public Aff… Golldman Sachs.. From 2001 to 2005,, Mr.. Zoellllick served as U..S.. Trade Representative and from 2005-2006,, he served as Deputy Secretary of State.. He then took office as President of the Worlld Bank on Jully 1,, 2007.. Mr.. Zoellllick graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore Collllege in 1975.. He earned a J..D.. magna cum llaude from the Harvard Law Schooll and a MPP (focusing on publlic management and internationall issues,, especialllly economics) from the Kennedy Schooll of Government in 1981.. He llived in Hong Kong on a fellllowship in 1980.. VIN WEBER Vin Weber is a senior fellllow at the Humphrey Schooll of Publlic Affairs.. He is allso activelly invollved in the Humphrey Schooll Pollicy Fellllows program.. He served in Congress from 1981 to 1993,, representing Minnesota’’s Second Congressionall District.. He is a partner at Cllark & Weinstock,, a consullting firm that provides strategic advice to institutions with matters before the llegisllative and executive branches of the federall government.. Prior to opening Cllark & Weinstock’’s Washington office in 1994,, Weber was president — and co-director with Jack Kemp,, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Billl Bennett — of Empower America,, a publlic pollicy advocacy group.. From 2001-2010,, he served as chairman of the Nationall Endowment for Democracy (NED),, a private,, nonprofit organization designed to strengthen democratic institutions around the worlld through nongovernmentall efforts.. Weber is a regullar commentator on Nationall Publlic Radio and is often sought as a polliticall anallyst for network programs such as CNN’’s Capitall Gang.. 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