The President's Inner Circle
Paul Wolfowitz, the president of the World Bank, is surrounding himself with close conservative Republican allies. Some at the bank worry that he is not listening to veteran World Bank staff.
Paul Wolfowitz: President. Before joining the bank, Wolfowitz had been deputy secretary of defense since 2001. Prior to the Pentagon, he had been dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University since 1994. Earlier, he worked for the State Department, including as ambassador to Indonesia.
Karl Jackson: Consultant advisor. Jackson is director of Asian studies at SAIS. Considered to be close friends, Jackson and Wolfowitz got to know each other when Jackson worked at the Defense Department, the State Department, and Johns Hopkins.
Kevin S. Kellems: Senior advisor. Before joining the World Bank, Kellems was special adviser to Wolfowitz when he was the deputy secretary of defense. He is a former spokesman for Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. Richard Lugar. Kellems ran unsuccessfully in a GOP congressional primary in Indiana in 2000.
Robin Cleveland: Counselor. Before joining the bank, Cleveland worked closely with Wolfowitz as a senior budget official under President George W. Bush. She helped push through large budgets for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This story appears in the April 3, 2006 print edition of U.S. News & World Report.
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