Last week U.S. President Barack Obama resubmitted his nomination for the U.S. government’s representative at the World Bank — a position that has been left unfilled by a candidate that is not an “alternate” for over a year and a half.
With no certainty as to when the nomination is to be approved or rejected, champions of U.S. economic interests abroad are left to wonder when their voice will be fully considered in multilateral bank affairs.
“Operating without a full U.S. leadership team in place in these institutions limits our reach and influence at a time when we are working on a range of pressing challenges,” U.S. Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs Nathan Sheets said at the National Press Club in early December.
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Jeff Tyson@jtyson21
Jeff is a former global development reporter for Devex. Based in Washington, D.C., he covers multilateral affairs, U.S. aid, and international development trends. He has worked with human rights organizations in both Senegal and the U.S., and prior to joining Devex worked as a production assistant at National Public Radio. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations and French from the University of Rochester.
