While he has been largely anonymous in the role since then, that, given the controversy which surrounded Mr Wolfowitz's tenure, may have been no bad thing.Mr Wolfowitz was eventually forced to quit as World Bank president when it emerged that he had...

Wolfensohn, the master networker who led the World Bank into this century, lined the window of his office with silver-framed photographs of the global elite. Paul Wolfowitz, the neoconservative defence expert who succeeded him, replaced them with...

...a job that has always gone to an American.The Obama administration said it would open the process to competition, marking the first time it has shown willingness to loosen its grip on the world's top development lender.Mr Zoellick took the reins at the Bank...

Probably the most harmless statement Buchanan ever made was to perpetuate the Myth that the Jews controls foreign policy. In Buchanan's essay "Whose War" he blames the Iraq war on a bunch of mostly Jewish public figures such as Bill Kristol, Paul...

For sure, Obama would like to place a Democrat at the World Bank, which lent $57 billion in its last fiscal year. Zoellick, 58, a Republican appointed in 2007 by President George W. Bush , was well-regarded for having brought stability to the job after...

The Obama administration said it would open the process to competition, marking the first time it has shown willingness to loosen its grip on the world's top development lender. Zoellick took the reins at the Bank in 2007 after a staff revolt pushed...