Following the World Bank's Monday announcement that College President Jim Yong Kim has been elected to serve as the Bank's next president, the Board of Trustees will announce the College's interim president on Tuesday, Chairman of the Board Stephen Mandel '78 said in a statement to The Dartmouth. The head of the search committee that will select Dartmouth's 18th president will be announced on Thursday, according to Director of Media Relations Justin Anderson.
Kim will step down as College president on June 30, the same day that current World Bank President Robert Zoellick will vacate his position at the Bank. Kim will assume the presidency of the World Bank on July 1, The New York Times reported.
Kim's appointment marks the end of his nearly three-year tenure as the College's 17th president, the second shortest presidential tenure in Dartmouth history. Kim was selected as the first Asian-American president of an Ivy League institution in 2009.
"Jim has been an inspiring and innovative leader, and we have no doubt that he will bring the same energy and creativity to the World Bank that he brought to Dartmouth," Mandel said in the statement. "Today is Jim's day, a day to for all of us to celebrate his exciting new opportunity."
