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Published · transcript-backedSebastian Mallaby: belief
9 Feb 2022 Conversations with Tyler Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital
“I think Bob Zoellick, when he was head of the World Bank a few years back, was a good choice because he was an American, but he was also close to China and understood China.”
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- 9 Feb 2022
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…If you could pick someone now to head the World Bank unconstrained, whom would you pick and why? That’s another great question. I think you need somebody who would be good at this great-power politics. I think Bob Zoellick, when he was head of the World Bank a few years back, was a good choice because he was an American, but he was also close to China and understood China. If you had to pick somebody now, I guess you would go down the list of Americans who have been ambassador in China or maybe vice versa. I think it would take somebody like that who has the stature. I don’t have a name that pops into my head, but that’s — A young Bob Zoellick is what you want?…
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