Sir James David Wolfensohn KBE AO was the ninth president of the World Bank Group. James Wolfensohn was born in Sydney, Australia, on 1 December 1933. In his autobiography, A Global Life, he described that monetary insecurity was a fact of life from childhood and that he was always looking for a cushion to protect himself from it. He was first educated at Woollahra Public School, then educated at Sydney Boys High School. He studied arts and law at the University of Sydney, and in 1959 earned a Master of Business Administration degree at Harvard Business School. In his 2010 memoirs he... reveals he failed several university classes, including English, and was a 'late developer'. He was a member of the Australian fencing team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and an officer in the Royal Australian Air Force. Before attending Harvard, Wolfensohn was a lawyer in the Australian law firm of Allen, Allen & Hemsley in Sydney . Upon graduating from Harvard Business School, Wolfensohn worked briefly for Swiss cement giant Holderbank .
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