世行员工联合会呼吁由非美籍人士出任行长

The World Bank's powerful staff association has called for an international search for a replacement to President Jim Yong Kim, pointing to a “crisis of leadership” at the bank just as he begins a campaign for a second five-year term.

世界银行(World Bank)强大的员工联合会呼吁在全球范围内搜寻替换现任行长金墉（Jim Yong Kim，上图）的人选，暴露出该行内的一场“领导力危机”，此时正值金墉开始为第二个五年任期活动之际。

“The world has changed, and we must change with it. Unless we revisit the rules-of-the-game, the World Bank Group faces the real possibility of becoming an anachronism on the international stage,” the leaders of the staff association wrote in a letter to the bank’s board seen by the Financial Times.

英国《金融时报》所见的一封世行员工联合会领导人致世行董事会的信写道：“世界变了，我们也必须随之改变。除非我们重新考虑游戏规则，否则世界银行集团面临着变成国际舞台上的过时产物的切实可能。”

Mr Kim was appointed president of the World Bank in 2012 and his term runs out next June.

金墉2012年被任命为世行行长，其任期将于明年6月结束。

His tenure at the bank has been mired in criticism, much of it from within the bank and related to a difficult restructuring that he has pushed through.

他任世行行长以来一直受到各种批评，其中许多批评来自该行内部，与他推进的一场艰难重组有关。

He continues to enjoy the backing of the US, the bank's biggest shareholder. “The United States fully supports [Mr] Kim’s presidency at the World Bank, including the steps he’s taken to enact important reforms,” the US Treasury, which oversees Washington's relationship with the bank, said in a statement to the FT.

但他仍受到世行最大股东美国的支持。负责管理华盛顿与世行关系的美国财政部在给英国《金融时报》的一份声明中称：“美国完全支持金墉任世行行长期间的工作，包括他为实施重要改革所采取的举措。”

The board has begun informal discussions over how and whether to reappoint Mr Kim to a second term and is due to debate the process more formally at a meeting later this month, according to bank officials.

据世行官员表示，世行董事会已就是否及如何给予金墉第二个任期展开非正式讨论，并将在本月晚些时候的一次会议上更加正式地讨论相关程序。

Mr Kim told staff in a town-hall meeting earlier this year that he was open to serving a second term but had not formally sought a reappointment. He has, however, told board members that he would like to serve a second term, said one person close to the board.

今年早些时候，金墉在一次市政厅式会议上向世行员工表示，他对再干一任持开放态度，但并未正式寻求连任。不过，据一位了解世行董事会的人士透露，金墉已向董事会成员表示他愿意再干一任。

In its letter, the staff association argues that the time has come for the bank to be led by someone other than an American, as has been custom since its creation at Bretton Woods in 1944.

在致世行董事会的信中，世行员工联合会表示，是时候由一位非美籍人士来领导这家银行了。自1944年于布雷顿森林(Bretton Woods)成立以来，世行的行长例来由美国人担任。

“We preach principles of good governance, transparency, diversity, international competition, and merit-based selection. Unfortunately, none of these principles have applied to the appointment of past World Bank Group Presidents,” the association’s executive committee wrote. “Instead, we have accepted decades of backroom deals which, twelve times in a row, selected an American male. This must change.”

世行员工联合会执委会在信中写道：“我们宣扬良好治理、透明、多样性、国际竞争及择优选取等原则。遗憾的是，以往任命世界银行行长时，这些原则一条也没被遵行。相反，我们接受了几十年的幕后交易，连续12次选择的都是美国男性。这种情况必须改变。”