From Sydney student to World Bank leader

By Don Woolford
Updated November 26 2020 - 4:09pm, first published 4:03pm
James Wolfensohn, photographed in 2001, was a modern renaissance man.
James Wolfensohn, photographed in 2001, was a modern renaissance man.

International financier and multi-millionaire, Olympian, cellist, A-list networker, president of the World Bank and Middle East peace envoy - James Wolfensohn was a modern renaissance man.

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