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'''Robert Bruce Zoellick''' was unanimously confirmed as President of the [[World Bank]] on June 25, 2007.<ref>Lesley Wroughton, [http://uk.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUKN25302115._CH_.242020070625 "Zoellick unanimously approved as World Bank chief,"] Reuters (UK), June 25, 2007.</ref> Zoellick was nominated for the position on May 30, 2007, by President [[George W. Bush]].<ref>[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070530-4.html News Release: "President Bush Nominates Robert Zoellick As President Of The World Bank,"] Office of the White House Press Secretary, May 30, 2007.</ref>
==Profiles==
Zoellick was raised in Naperville, IL. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1975 from Swarthmore College and received his J.D. from the Harvard Law School and a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 1981.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20021221130122/http://www.ustdrc.gov/members/zoellick.html Archived copy of Zoellick's U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission profile.]</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040408160727/http://www.ustr.gov/about-ustr/ambassador/zoellick.html Archived copy of Zoellick's U.S. Trade Representative profile].</ref>
==On Climate Change==
In an October 2007 speech to the National Press Club, Zoellick stated that "we are working with our Board to significantly step up our assistance to the international efforts to address climate change. At our upcoming Annual Meetings and at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali this December, I hope to outline a portfolio of ways the World Bank Group can help integrate the needs of development and low carbon growth. We need to focus particularly on the interests of developing countries, so that we can meet the challenge of climate change without slowing the growth that will help overcome poverty.<ref>Robert B. Zoellick, [http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21504730~pagePK:34370~piPK:42770~theSitePK:4607,00.html "An Inclusive & Sustainable Globalization"], President of the World Bank Group, The National Press Club, Washington D.C., October 10, 2007.</ref>
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