World Bank chief to change, not resign

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2007

WASHINGTON (AFP) — World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz met with top managers to discuss ways of changing his leadership style amid a favoritism scandal that has prompted calls for him to resign, a US media report said Tuesday.

The Washington Post said the major development lender's American president held a brief meeting Monday in which he said he was considering a "coach" to help him change his leadership style, without indicating its sources.

The newspaper also said Wolfowitz had hired a top defense lawyer, Robert S. Bennett, to represent him as the bank reviews his role in the matter. Bennett is a former federal prosecutor who acted for ex-US President Bill Clinton in a sexual harassment case against him in 1998.

It quoted Bennett as saying in an interview...

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