Ivanka Trump, President Trump's daughter and senior White House adviser, is not a candidate to be the next president of the World Bank, but she'll "help manage the U.S. nomination process as she's worked closely with the World Bank's leadership for the past two years," a White House representative tells The Wall Street Journal. Trump will work with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to select the U.S. nominee, following the surprise resignation of Jim Yong Kim earlier this month.
The World Bank president is traditionally American while Europe picks the head of the International Monetary Fund, but this year's World Bank "selection is shaping up as a test of the Trump administration's international clout," the Journal reports. "The World Bank's board of directors has said a candidate must be committed to multilateralism, while some Trump administration officials have been critical of multilateral institutions like the World Bank, which is the leading international development finance institution." The U.S. has the largest voting share of any country, about 16 percent, but blocs like the European Union collectively have larger shares, and an America First candidate could lead to the first-ever non-U.S. World Bank president.
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