(Reuters) - Here are some facts about Paul Wolfowitz, who is to resign as president of the World Bank effective June 30:
* A political science PhD from the University of Chicago, Wolfowitz was hired during the Nixon administration to work on arms control and nonproliferation issues in the 1970s. In 1977, under Democratic President Jimmy Carter, Wolfowitz moved to the Pentagon, where he stayed until 1980.
* He was among a group of academics and analysts known as “neoconservatives” who became disillusioned with Carter’s foreign policy and advocated a more assertive stance, particularly with regard to the Soviet Union.
* He held senior positions at the State Department in the Reagan administration before serving as ambassador to Indonesia from 1986 to 1989.
* Under President George H.W. Bush, when current Vice President Dick Cheney was secretary of defense, Wolfowitz worked as under-secretary of defense for policy, helping raise money from allies to help finance the 1991 Gulf War.
* Out of political favor during the Clinton administration, Wolfowitz spent 1993 to 2001 as dean of Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, in Washington.
* After George W. Bush was elected U.S. president in 2000, Wolfowitz returned to government, and was deputy defense secretary under Donald Rumsfeld from 2001-2005. He strongly advocated the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and said the country’s oil revenues would finance post-war reconstruction “relatively soon.”
* The United States nominated Wolfowitz in January 2005 to take over the World Bank from retiring President James Wolfensohn, a post that traditionally is held by an American. European governments that opposed the Iraq war had misgivings about the choice, but did not stop his appointment.
* He took over on June 1, 2005, pursuing a rigorous campaign against corruption in developing countries, the main recipients of World Bank money. European critics worried that the anti-corruption strategy would slow funding to the poor.
* Critics accused Wolfowitz of hypocrisy when it emerged he had helped arrange a promotion and pay raise for his companion and bank employee Shaha Riza.
* World Bank member governments expressed “great concern” at the situation and one of his two deputies, bank veteran Graeme Wheeler, told Wolfowitz he should resign.
* Wolfowitz, 63, resisted calls to quit and tried to rally support. For weeks, the Bush administration stood by Wolfowitz, saying the World Bank could continue to be effective with Wolfowitz in charge.
