October 15, 2007
CGD president Nancy Birdsall writes that Robert Zoellick is off to a good start as president of the World Bank but notes two areas in which she hopes he will do much more. The first is to engage China, India and other rising emerging market economies in a global strategy to address new global challenges, such as climate change. The second is to improve the bank's own governance by asking the board to formalize a process for choosing the bank's next president that is open, merit-based, and independent of any nationality; and by changing board voting procedures to give developing countries more say.