President Obama introduces Jim Yong Kim in the rose garden at the White House. — Reuters picWASHINGTON, March 23 — US President Barack Obama today nominated Dartmouth College president Jim Yong Kim, a public health expert of South Korean origin, to head the World Bank.

“I do not think that the World Bank could have a better leader,” Obama said as he made the announcement with Kim at his side in the White House rose garden. — Reuters