世界银行前行长、美国前副国务卿罗伯特·布鲁斯·佐利克
罗伯特·布鲁斯·佐利克是哈佛肯尼迪政治学院贝尔弗科学与国际事务研究中心的高级学者,和彼得森国际经济研究所的高级访问学者。
从2007到2012年,他担任世界银行的第11任行长。佐利克先生让一个身陷各种麻烦中的机构转危为安,为世界银行重新注入资金,并在食物、燃料和金融危机中扩大了在发展中国家的融资。他使世界银行变得现代化,更负责任、灵活、快速移动、透明,并专注于良好的治理和反腐败工作。
他在治理和工作人员中增强了发展中国家的代表性,鼓励发展中国家设定他们自己的优先顺序,而不是简单执行世行的指令。通过世行的国际金融合作,他也显著增强了私营部门的角色,在他的领导下,国际金融合作提高了业务,扩大股本投资,动员更多的资金,招募了主权财富基金和养老基金的对贫穷国家,尤其在非洲的投资。
在他世行的任期之前,佐利克先生曾担任高盛集团的国际副主席,并在2006到2007年,担任高盛董事会国际顾问的董事总经理和董事长。2005到2006年间,他曾担任美国副国务卿,他作为首席运营官,带领中国政策。从2001年到2005年,佐利克先生还是总统的内阁成员,作为美国贸易代表,在那里,他恢复了美国的自由贸易议程,并增加了五倍的美国自由贸易协议。
从1985年到1993年间,佐利克曾任克林顿政府的财政部和国家部门中的各种职位,包括白宫副参谋长。他是在1989到1990年在“2 + 4”德国统一过程中的核心美国官员,并且作为总统的“向导”准备了1991-92年的G7/8经济峰会。
1975年,佐利克先生作为美国大学优等生从斯沃斯摩尔学院毕业。1981年,他获得了哈佛法学院法学博士学位和哈佛肯尼迪政府学院公共管理和国际事务硕士学位。1980年,他曾通过一项助学金计划居住在香港。
佐利克曾接受过来自德国、墨西哥和智利政府的荣誉。他是路德维希·艾金牌经济学奖获得者;美澳领袖奖获得者;在亚历山大汉密尔顿和杰出服务奖项中,分别是财政部和国家最高荣誉获得者;美国国防部的杰出公共服务奖章获得者;并分别是兰德公共政策的研究生院和和印第安纳州圣约瑟夫大学伦斯勒理工学院的荣誉博士学位,。
佐利克先生成长在伊利诺斯州。
Robert B. Zoellick is a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
He served as the 11th president of the World Bank from 2007 to 2012. Mr. Zoellick turned around an institution in trouble, recapitalized the Bank, and expanded financing for developing countries during the food,fuel,and financial crises.He modernized the Bank by making it more accountable,flexible,fast-moving,transparent,and focused on good governance and anti-corruption. He has increased representation of developing countries in governance and staffing and encouraged developing countries to set their own priorities rather than have them dictated from the Bank. His record has also been marked by an increased role for the private sector through the Bank's International Finance Corporation,which under his leadership has boosted business,expanded equity investments,mobilized more co-investments, and recruited sovereign wealth funds and pension funds to invest in poor countries, especially in Africa.
Before his term at the Bank,Mr. Zoellick served as Vice Chairman,International, of the Goldman Sachs Group as well as Managing Director and Chairman of Goldman Sachs'Board of International Advisors from 2006-2007.Previously, he was Deputy Secretary of State in 2005-2006, where he was Chief Operating Officer and led China policy.Mr. Zoellick was a member of the President's Cabinet as U.S. Trade Representative from 2001-2005, where he revitalized America's free trade agenda, increasing U.S. FTAs fivefold.
From 1985 to 1993, Zoellick served at the Treasury and State Departments in various posts,as well as White House Deputy Chief of Staff.He was the lead U.S. official in the"Two-plus-Four"process of German unification in 1989-90 and served as the President's "Sherpa"for the preparation of the G7/8 Economic Summits in 1991-92.
Mr. Zoellick graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swathmore College in 1975.He earned a J.D. magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School and a MPP from the Kennedy School of Government in 1981. He lived in Hong Kong on a fellowship in 1980.
Zoellick received decorations from the German,Mexican,and Chilean governments;the Ludwig Erhard Gold Medal for Economics, the Australian-American Leadership award;the Alexander Hamilton and Distinguished Service Awards,the highest honors of the Departments of Treasury and State, respectively; the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service;and Honorary Doctorates from RAND's Graduate School of Public Policy and St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana.
Mr. Zoellick grew up in Naperville, Illinois.