US President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and are among possible US candidates to replace outgoing World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, AsiaOne writes citing report published on Friday.
Kim abruptly announced Monday he was cutting short his tenure as the bank's president more than three years before his second term was due to end.
On Friday, The Financial Times reported that in addition to Trump and Haley, who stepped down as US Ambassador to the United Nations last month, other names being floated include Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs David Malpass and Mark Green, head of the US Agency for International Development.
Ivanka Trump in 2017 was the driving force behind a US$1 billion (S$1.35 billion), Saudi-supported World Bank fund to promote entrepreneurship by women.
The Treasury Department said on Friday that it had no comment in potential candidates.
