“The challenges are multiplied and multipolar. We cannot have economic prosperity without worrying about nature, pandemics, fragility, the availability of food – it is our new world”,
summed up Ajay Banga at the beginning of March.
This 63-year-old Indian-American businessman, who never takes off his Sikh turban or his beard, then began an extensive tour of Africa, Asia and Europe.
Chosen by the White House to lead the World Bank, without a competing candidate, he should be dubbed this week by the institution's shareholder states gathered in Washington at their spring meeting.
And take control in June, before the end of the term of his predecessor, who announced his premature resignation a few months ago.
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