Carole Brookins

Former Chicago Board of Trade member and one-time World Bank official Carole Brookins has died after contracting the coronavirus, according to the Chicago-based American Financial Exchange, where she was a founding director. She passed away March 23 at age 76. From 2001 to 2005, Brookins was U.S. executive director at the World Bank in Washington before most recently co-leading consulting firm Public Capital Advisors as a managing director She was one of the few women trading on the Chicago futures exchange floors in the 1970s. Brookins also served as a director on several corporate and non-profit boards, including the Center for Financial Stability and GVEP (Global Village Energy Partnership) International. President George H.W. Bush appointed her to the President's Export Council in 1990 and she was named chairman of the Department of State's Advisory Committee on Food, Hunger & Agriculture in Developing Countries in 1984, according to Public Capital Advisors.