World Bank president Jim Yong Kim: "As a scientist, I feel a moral responsibility to be very clear in communicating the dangers of climate change"

New World Bank Head Wants to Address Climate Change - ScienceInsider

Jim Yong Kim, the new president of the World Bank, said in Tokyo today that dealing with climate change will be one of his priorities. "Since becoming president of the World Bank, I have looked deeply into the data on climate change, and I have to say I was surprised that even in last 6 months to a year, the data has become ever more frightening," he said. "As a scientist, I feel a moral responsibility to be very clear in communicating the dangers of climate change."

Jim Yong Kim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He was awarded an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1991, and a PhD from Harvard University, Department of Anthropology, in 1993