Paul Wolfowitz

On June 30, 2007, Paul Wolfowitz resigned his position as the 10th President of the World Bank after two years of controversial service. He previously served in The Bush Administration as the Deputy Secretary of Defense under Donald Rumsfeld from 2001 to 2005.

Wolfowitz is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships.

Wolfowitz's Neoconservative political views were influenced by his Cornell University mentor Allan Bloom and University of Chicago scholars Albert Wohlstetter and Leo Strauss.

During his time as [Dean]] of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Wolfowitz became associated with the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a leading conservative think tank which became a major influence on high-level government officials in the Bush administration and strongly affected the development of military and foreign policies, especially involving national security and the Iraq War.

• December 22, 1943: Born in Ithaca, New York

• 1970: Teaches a young Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the Political Science Department of Yale University

• 1982: Appointed Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs by Secretary of State George Schultz

• 1997: Charter member of the Project for the New American Century

• 2001: Appointed Deputy Secretary of Defense by President George W. Bush

• June 1, 2005: Confirmed as President of the World Bank