Dr. Jim Yong Kim
The Architect
Structured and legacy-driven; builds the systems and institutions that last.
Dr. Jim Yong Kim reads as The Architect because across medicine, global health, and development finance he builds the structural frameworks that make large-scale impact possible. Co-founding Partners in Health, he went beyond treating patients to design a community health worker model that became a global template. As World Bank president, he restructured the institution's priorities and lending architecture around human capital. Kim thinks in systems and builds for durability.
“Our job is to make the global market system work for everybody and the planet. There's gonna be no way to buffer yourself from two billion people living in Africa who are going to have aspirations every bit as high as Europeans or Americans.”
“We came to the conclusion that our responsibility was to commit to the poorest, most marginalized, most outcast people and do everything we can to provide them the best possible healthcare, education, social protection.”
“If indeed everyone in the world—eight billion people—have access to broadband, their aspirations grow. There's absolutely no way we'll meet those aspirations without massive new investments from the private sector.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Dr. Jim Yong Kim”
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