The World Bank was created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, along with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The president of the World Bank is traditionally an American.
Harry Dexter White (left) and John Maynard Keynes, the "founding fathers"
 of both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

The IMF has three critical missions: furthering international monetary cooperation, encouraging the expansion of trade and economic growth, and discouraging policies that would harm prosperity