Wolfowitz, the deputy US defence secretary and a chief architect of the Iraq war, was being mooted last night as a leading candidate to become the 10th president of the World Bank.
Part of the so-called "neo-con" inner circle at the White House, Mr Wolfowitz, 61, is said by Washington insiders to be on the shortlist to replace James Wolfensohn, who is due to step down at the end of May from the agency dedicated to relieving global poverty.
A military analyst in the Reagan administration, Mr Wolfowitz became a leading light in the Project for the New American Century, a think-tank which espoused a fresh US foreign policy with regard to Iraq and other "potential aggressor states", dismissing containment in favour of "pre-emption."
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