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Joachim von Amsberg, World Bank’s Chief Representative in Indonesia, will resign from office in July, and then occupy a new position as one of the Vice President of the World Bank.

Joachim resignation from his position now appears one year earlier than the expiry of its term in Indonesia, namely in July 2011. Chief Representative of the World Bank in a member state has a term of office for four years. World Bank executive has headed the Nationality German World Bank representative office in Jakarta since July 2007.

“I offered to take a new job in Washington starting in July 2010,” he told Business.

Joachim describes himself received and accepted an offer of new positions higher up in the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC, USA named as Vice President of World Bank Operational Policy field.

According to him, his appointment to his new position was announced internally in April 2010 and had nothing to do with the election of Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Financial Affairs, as Executive Director of the multilateral development banks.

“It [the appointment of Joachim as Vice President for Operations Policy and Sri Mulyani as Managing Director] is only coincidental. Until now there is no candidate for my replacement, “he added.

Joachim made his debut at the World Bank since 1993 as an economic expert sectoral area of environmental management, urban and rural areas with temporary placements in Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay, Latin America and Caribbean region, and Egypt.

Before you head the World Bank representative office in Jakarta, who was born 46 years ago holds the position as head of the World Bank representative office in the Philippines for the period 2004-2007. The holder of a PhD degree in the field of Finance and Economic Policy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada also had served as the country economist in Brazil, and later became chief economist for Brazil at World Bank headquarters.

During his period in Indonesia, between policy breakthroughs ever he made are the encouragement standby loan initiative (standby loan) to the Government of Indonesia for U.S. $ 2 billion, the synchronization of the World Bank Country Partnership Strategy 2009-2012 with the National Medium Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 2010-2014.

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