Carole Brookins

Carole Lynn Brookins (born August 16, 1943 in Gary , Indiana as Carole Lynn Glueck ; † March 23, 2020 in Palm Beach , Florida ) was an American businesswoman and government official. She was one of the pioneers in the male-dominated stock market trading in the 1970s.

Career

Brookins studied history at the University of Oklahoma , where she graduated in 1965. From 1967 she worked in the financial industry, initially as an underwriter of municipal bonds and after a stopover as a reporter on the Chicago Board of Trade at the financial services company EF Hutton , where she rose from the early 1970s to head of the commodity futures business. After the grain embargo imposed on the Soviet Union by US President Jimmy Carter , she founded her own company in 1980, World Perspectives .

In 1984 Brookins took over the chairmanship of the Advisory Committee on Food, Hunger and Agriculture in Developing Countries at the US State Department . In 1990 she was inducted by George HW Bush into the President's Export Council, the most important national advisory body for world trade. Between 2001 and 2005 she was Executive Director of the World Bank on the recommendation of George W. Bush .

Brookins was a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations . In 2018 she founded the First Alliance Foundation , which is dedicated to strengthening ties between the American and French military.

In spring 2020, Brookins was a victim of the global COVID-19 pandemic at the age of 76 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Carole Brookins, a Rare Woman on 1970s Wall Street, Dies at 76 , April 22, 2020, The New York Times
2. ^ ^{A b} Carole Brookins, a pioneering woman on CBOT's trading floor, dies after COVID diagnosis , March 27, 2020, Chicago Business