James Wolfensohn

James Wolfensohn is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Wolfensohn & Company, an investment and consulting firm focusing on emerging market economies. He is also the chairman of Citigroup’s International Advisory Board. From 1995-2005 Wolfensohn served as the president of the World Bank. He was the third World Bank president to serve two terms. After leaving the World Bank, Wolfensohn was special envoy for Gaza disengagement for the Quartet on the Middle East. In 2006, he founded the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution, which focuses on on aid effectiveness, early child development, and Middle East youth. Wolfensohn has served in many organizations including the Council of Foreign Relations and the Rockefeller Foundation. A native of Australia, Wolfensohn graduated from the University of Sydney and earned his M.B.A from Harvard in 1959.