Press reports overnight that Carly Fiorina, forced out last month as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, has emerged as a potential candidate to run the World Bank. She joins Randall Thomas, former chief executive of Eli Lilly, John Taylor, the US Treasury Under-Secretary, and Jim Leach, a Republican congressman, on the shortlist. So what hapened to earlier reports in the Financial Times that Paul Wolfowitz, US deputy secretary of defence, has emerged as a leading candidate - something which had at least one blogger reeling? For more comments see this website.
UPDATE: Lawrence Kudlow thinks Fiorina "has the management skills, the business acumen, and the policy vision to turn the World Bank into a 21st century institution." Meanwhile Adam Smithee thinks the LA Times "seems to have mistaken style for substance" by proposing Bono of U2 for the job. General Glut considers the Wolfowitz nomination as "a sign of waning neocon influence".
UPDATE 2: Ben Muse quotes at length from a recent International Herald Tribune story, High stakes in race to head the WTO, with profiles of four of the main candidates. Meanwhile the Bono bandwagon is gaining ground, and Slate explains If Bono Ran the World Bank ... what he would actually have to do.
I see Kudlow still worships at the Cult of the CEO. Ever so quaint.
Posted by: Tom DC/VA | Monday, March 07, 2005 at 02:38 AM