WASHINGTON, May 19: A former deputy secretary of state and US Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick tops the list of candidates likely to succeed Paul Wolfowitz as the World Bank president.
Mr Zoellic is now a top executive at Goldman Sachs in New York. He was a leading candidate to head the bank in 2005 when the White House selected Mr Wolfowitz. Also top on the list of his likely successors is Bill Frist, the former Republican Senator from Tennessee and former Senate majority leader.
