Carole Brookins (August 16, 1943 – March 23, 2020) was an American executive director of the

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and an expert on the global

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. Brookins attended the

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, graduating in 1965, and entered

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in the early 1970s after being hired by

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, then one of the United States' largest stock brokerages. In 1980, she founded a company named World Perspectives, which focused on agricultural

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. Beginning in 1984, Brookins was given several roles in government. The first was as the chairman of the US Department of State's Advisory Committee on Food, Hunger & Agriculture in Developing Countries. Six years later,

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nominated her for the

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. Finally,

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appointed her as an executive director of and a US representative in the World Bank. Brookins held this role from 2001 to 2005. Brookins was also a member of the

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for life. Brookins died on March 23, 2020, in

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, of

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during the

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. She was 76 years old.

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