世界銀行行長金墉提前三年卸任

World Bank Group (WBG) President Jim Yong Kim unexpectedly announced on Monday that he will be stepping down from his position on Feb 1, more than three years before his second term ends in 2022.

世界銀行集團行長金墉週一突然宣佈，他將於2月1日卸任，此時距他2022年第二任期期滿還有3年多的時間。

"Serving as president of WBG has been a great privilege," Kim said. "The work of the WBG is more important now than ever as the aspirations of the poor rise all over the world, and problems like climate change, pandemics, famine and refugees continue to grow in both their scale and complexity."

金墉表示：“能夠擔任世界銀行集團行長是我的莫大榮幸。隨着全球貧困人口的訴求提高，氣候變化、流行性疾病、饑荒、難民等問題的規模和複雜性持續增長，如今世界銀行的工作比以往任何時候都更加重要。”

Kim told World Bank employees in an email that he was leaving the world's largest lender to join a private-sector firm focused on infrastructure investments in the developing world.

金墉通過電子郵件告訴世界銀行集團的員工，他離開這家全球最大借貸機構後，會加入一家專注於發展中國家基礎設施投資的民營企業。

"The opportunity to join the private sector was unexpected, but I've concluded that this is the path through which I will be able to make the largest impact on major global issues like climate change and the infrastructure deficit in emerging markets," Kim said.

他表示，加入這家民營企業的機會來的出乎意料，但他認爲這是自己能對氣候變遷與新興市場基礎設施短缺等重大全球議題產生最大影響力的途徑。

Kim first became the 12th president of the WBG on July 1, 2012. He was appointed to a second five-year term as president of the multilateral development bank in 2016.

2012年7月1日，金墉成爲世界銀行第12任行長。2016年，他開始了作爲這一多邊開發銀行行長的第二個五年的任期。

Kristalina Georgieva, who in 2017 became the World Bank's chief executive officer, will assume the role of interim president when Kim departs.

金墉離任後，自2017年起擔任世界銀行首席執行官的克里斯塔利娜·格奧爾基耶娃將擔任世界銀行臨時行長。

Georgieva, a Bulgarian national, had previously held senior European Union posts after serving 15 years at the World Bank, starting as an environmental economist in 1993.

1993年進入世界銀行擔任環境經濟學家，在世界銀行任職15年後，出任過歐盟高級職位。