FACTBOX: Key facts about World Bank nominee Zoellick

(Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday nominated Robert Zoellick, the former U.S. deputy secretary of state, to be the new World Bank president, describing him as a "committed internationalist."

Here are some key facts on Zoellick:

*The 53-year-old has advanced his career in and out government over the past two decades. He is now a managing director at Goldman Sachs investment bank and a vice chairman handling international issues.

*Zoellick served as Bush's first U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) beginning in 2001. He played a key role in helping launch the Doha round of world trade talks, one month after the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.

*The Harvard law school graduate advised Bush on trade and foreign policy issues during the 2000 presidential campaign and spent weeks in Tallahassee, Florida, as part of the team to ensure that Bush won the controversial election.

*Zoellick's government career has benefited from his ties to the Bush family. He worked in President George H.W. Bush's White House as a deputy chief of staff and under James Baker, the former secretary of state, who was Bush's lead strategist overseeing the Florida vote recount.

*Zoellick was also one of the "Vulcans," a group of neoconservative policy planners that included outgoing World Bank President Wolfowitz, who advised the younger Bush, then governor of Texas, prepare for the 2000 debates in his run for the presidency.

*As trade representative, Zoellick concluded free trade deals with Chile, Singapore, Australia, Morocco and Central American countries but was unable to finish world trade talks and negotiations on a Western Hemisphere free trade zone by a January 1, 2005 deadline.

*Zoellick gave up his cabinet level office at USTR to become deputy secretary of state under Condoleezza Rice at the start of Bush's second term in 2005. There, he led U.S. efforts on Darfur and the administration's strategy of engaging China as a "responsible stakeholder" in world economic affairs.

*Zoellick helped devise U.S. foreign policy during a momentous period in the late 1980s and early 1990s that included the fall of communism. He won the State Department's highest award for helping develop the "two plus four" negotiations that led to German reunification.