[DEBATE] : (Fwd) Wolfowitz ally deserts sunk ship

[Patrick Bond]

18 January 2008
World Bank antigraft chief quits



WASHINGTON — Suzanne Folsom, director of the World Bank’s anticorruption 
department, has resigned after almost five years of clashes with staff, 
which a former Federal Reserve chairman said had undermined the efforts 
of her office.


Folsom, a lawyer who joined the bank in 2003, was appointed by former 
World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned last year and was 
replaced by former US deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick.


Folsom’s departure on Wednesday ended an era of stormy relations between 
bank employees and associates of Wolfowitz, a former Bush administration 
official who headed the bank from June 2005 to June last year. Zoellick 
and former Fed chairman Paul Volcker praised Folsom’s efforts to counter 
graft in World Bank projects. Bloomberg