James David Wolfensohn KBE, AO (born 1 December 1933) was the ninth president of the World Bank Group.
Wolfensohn was born in Sydney, Australia, on 5 December 1933, to Jewish parents who had immigrated from England during the Great Depression. He was educated at Sydney Boys High School, studied arts (BA) and law (LL.B) at the University of Sydney, and in 1959 earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at Harvard Business School. He w...
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James David Wolfensohn KBE, AO (born 1 December 1933) was the ninth president of the World Bank Group.
Wolfensohn was born in Sydney, Australia, on 5 December 1933, to Jewish parents who had immigrated from England during the Great Depression. He was educated at Sydney Boys High School, studied arts (BA) and law (LL.B) at the University of Sydney, and in 1959 earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at Harvard Business School. He was a member of the Australian fencing team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and an officer in the Royal Australian Air Force.
Before attending Harvard, Wolfensohn was a lawyer in the Australian law firm of Allen, Allen & Hemsley in Sydney (now Allens Arthur Robinson).
Upon graduating from Harvard Business School, Wolfensohn worked briefly for Swiss cement giant Holderbank (now Holcim). He then returned to his native Australia, where he worked for various banking institutions before being employed by J. Henry Schroders, a London-based...
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