Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Dundes Wolfowitzis a former President of the World Bank, United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships, and chairman of the US-Taiwan Business Council...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth22 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
People are entitled to present their views any way they want to, entitled to present uninformed views as well as informed ones.
Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.
I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
Graeme shares my view that in addition to core professional competencies, integrity, trust, accountability, and respect are the key ingredients which will assure our institutional and individual success and results,
That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.
I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.
When it comes back to the test of whether we (the World Bank) are doing our job or not, it's whether we're promoting development, not whether we're promoting democracy.
What we're looking for and what I think to some extent we're getting is both much stronger commitments from the G-8 countries as to how they will implement their obligations ... and then to make sure that they are not the only contributors here,
Unless serious concessions are made by all sides ... the Doha round of trade talks will fail and the people who will suffer the most are the world's poor.
We're still considering what to do with him. There's no decision yet.
We are going to make sure the Iraqi people believe us at the end of the day,
The face of Asia was changed dramatically for the better.
Our focus right now is in getting rid of this regime in Baghdad.