U.S. Contemplates Appointing First Female President of World Bank

The race to select the next president of the World Bank could be shaped by a strong international desire for the institution to have its first female president.

When World Bank President Jim Yong Kim unexpectedly announced his resignation earlier this month, it set off a complex game of chess between Washington—which hopes to preserve its 70-year record of picking the president of the world’s leading development finance institution—and other countries clamoring for a non-American to lead an organization devoted to serving...