The University of Iowa College of Public Health has selected Jim Yong Kim, partner and vice chairman at Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), as the 2024 recipient of the Richard and Barbara Hansen Leadership Award. Dr. Kim is former president of the World Bank Group and co-founder of Partners In Health.

He will visit the University of Iowa College of Public Health on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, to deliver the Hansen Distinguished Lecture. More details will be made available closer to the date.

Dr. Kim is a partner, vice chairman, and Global Infrastructure Partners emerging markets chairman, having joined GIP in 2019. He is based in New York.

From July 2012 to February 2019, Dr. Kim served as the 12th president of the World Bank Group. During Dr. Kim’s tenure, the World Bank Group supported the development priorities of countries at levels never seen outside of a financial crisis. A physician and anthropologist, Dr. Kim’s career has revolved around health, education, and improving the lives of the poor. Before joining the World Bank Group, he served as the president of Dartmouth College and held professorships at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health.

From 2003 to 2005, Dr. Kim served as director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department. He led WHO’s “3 by 5” initiative, the first­ ever global goal for AIDS treatment, which greatly expanded access to antiretroviral medication in developing countries. In 1987, Dr. Kim co-founded Partners In Health, a non-profit medical organization that now works in poor communities on four continents.

Dr. Kim graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in human biology, and received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in Anthropology at Harvard University.