High Profilers – Page 13

10Apr

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Brazil, High Profilers, Noteworthy, Profiles

Vitor Sapienza, politician & economist

Vitor Sapienza ‑ a Brazilian politician and economist from the state of São Paulo – died at Hospital Sírio-Libanês in São Paulo, at the age of 86 due to complications brought on by COVID-19 on April 9, 2020. Sapienza had a degree in economics and countable sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. In 1962, he started working as an accountant for the State of São Paulo. During this period of time, he had an active role at the State of Sao Paulo accountant union, and held various posts such as President, Secretary and Council member. In 1986, Sapienza successfully ran for a spot at the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo. His first term started in 1987 and finished in 1991. After his first tenure...

10Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Reggie Bagala, politician

Reggie Paul Bagala –an American politician who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party for four months – died on April 9, 2020 due to Covid-19 complications. Reggie Paul Bagala was born on July 8, 1965 and graduated from Louisiana State University in 1989. From 2014 to 2017, he served as the Lafourche Parish administrator and as director of the Office of Community Services before being fired by Lafourche Parish President Jimmy Cantrelle after Bagala refused to call council members about an insurance policy. However, he was hired by the by the council to serve as its auditor. He later filed a lawsuit against Cantrelle for violating his First Amendment rights, but his lawsuit was dismissed in 2019. In 2019, Bagala was elec...

8Apr

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Guyana, High Profilers, Profiles

John Percy Leon Lewis, military officer

John Percy Leon Lewis - a Guyanan military officer - died on 7 April, 2020 due to COVID-19. Lewis had also been president of the Guyana Rugby Football Union. He is believed to have been Guyana's sixth coronavirus victim, dying a few days after his wife Juliet Lewis who died on March 27 from pneumonia. Deputy Commandant of The Guyana Peoples Militia Longest serving reserve officer in Guyana with over 30 years of service. Only reserve officer to become a full Colonel by moving up from a Reserve Subaltern in 1968. Only reserve officer to be awarded the Military Service Medal. Lewis died on 7 April, 2020, in Guyana due to complications from COVID-19.

8Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Bernie Juskiewicz, politician

Bernard Charles Juskiewicz Jr. –an American politician in the state of Vermont – died of Covid-19 on April 8, 2020. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives, who sat as a Republican from the Lamoille-3 district, after having being elected for the first time in 2012. Juskiewicz did not seek reelection in 2018. He also served on the Lamoille Union High School Board, the Cambridge Elementary School Board and the Cambridge Select Board. Juskiewicz was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Hopkins Academy in Hadley, Massachusetts. He completed his bachelor of arts degree in business administration from the College of Emporia in Kansas. In 1967, he married his wife, Suzan, with whom he had three children. ...

6Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles

Mahmoud Jibril, politician

Mahmoud Jibril el-Warfally - a Libyan politician who served as the interim Prime Minister of Libya for seven and a half months during the Libyan Civil War, chairing the executive board of the National Transitional Council (NTC) from 5 March to 23 October 2011 – died of Covid-19 on April 5, 2020. He also served as the Head of International Affairs. As of July 2012 , Jibril was the head of one of the largest political parties in Libya, the National Forces Alliance. Toward the end of the conflict, Jibril was increasingly referred to by foreign governments and in media as the interim prime minister of Libya. Jibril's government was recognized as the "sole legitimate representative" of Libya by the majority of UN states including France, Turkey, the United King...

6Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United Kingdom

John Laws, judge

Sir John Grant McKenzie Laws ‑ a Lord Justice of Appeal – succumbed to Covid-19 virus on 5 April 2020. He served from 1999 to 2016. He was the Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science at the University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. Laws was born on 10 May 1945, the son of Dr Frederic Laws and his wife Dr Margaret Ross, née McKenzie, the daughter of the Congregational minister and academic John Grant McKenzie. He was educated at Durham Chorister School, and as a King's Scholar at Durham School. He studied at Exeter College, Oxford as a Senior Open Classical Scholar, receiving a First Class BA in 1967, and an MA in 1976. He became an Honorary Fellow of the College in 2000. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple ...

Philippe Bodson, businessman & politician

5Apr

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Belgium, High Profilers, Noteworthy, Profiles

Philippe Bodson, businessman & politician

Philippe André Eugène, Baron Bodson, a Belgian businessman and politician who served in the Belgian Senate from 1999 to 2003, died from Covid-19 on 4 April 2020. Bodson graduated as civil engineer at the University of Liège (ULg) and obtained a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) Bodson started his career at McKinsey in Paris where he worked for three years. He then worked for four years for the Daus Bank in Germany and the United States. In 1977, he started working for Glaverbel, where he would be the CEO from 1980 until 1989. From September 1989 until December 1998, he was a non-executive member of the board of directors of Fortis. From 1999 until 2003, he was a senator in the Belgian Senate for the Mouvement reformateur. F...

5Apr

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Bangladesh, High Profilers, Profiles

Muhammad Sirajul Islam, politician

Md. Sirajul Islam, a Bangladesh Awami League politician, succumbed to COVID-19 virus on 4 April,2020. He was elected a member of parliament from Undivided Sylhet-12 (present Maulvibazar-1) in 1973 and 1979. He was the organizer of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Sirajul Islam was born in 1943 in Barlekha Upazila of Moulvibazar District. Sirajul Islam was elected to parliament from Undivided Sylhet-12(present Maulvibazar-1) as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1973 and 1979. Sirajul Islam died on 4 April,2020, undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, New York City.

5Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United Kingdom

Alexander Thynn, aristocratic landowner

Alexander George Thynn ‑ 7th Marquess of Bath-styled Viscount Weymouth between 1946 and 1992, and a British aristocratic landowner, who sat in the House of Lords from 1992 until 1999, and a self- acclaimed artist and author ‑ died on 4 April, 2020 at the age of 87 due to COVID-19. Ranked 359th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2009 with an estimated wealth of £157 million, Lord Bath was in the media spotlight for his hippy fashion-sense and for developing Longleat as an animal sanctuary and tourist attraction. Thynn was born in London, the son of Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath and Daphne Fielding, and grew up at his family seat, Longleat, a grand Elizabethan house set in Wiltshire parkland landscaped in the 18th century by Capability Brown. After attending Ludgrove ...

4Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Bob Glanzer, politician

Robert E. Glanzer ‑ an American politician who served in the South Dakota House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party from 2017 to 2020 – succumbed to Covid-19 on April 3, 2020. Robert E. Glanzer was born on September 13, 1945, to Jacob S. Glanzer and Mattie King in Huron, South Dakota. In 1963, he graduated from James Valley Christian School in Huron and later graduated from Tabor College with a business degree and a minor in physical education in 1967. On August 2, 1968, he married Penny Glanzer and later had two children with her. He taught business education classes and coached sports at Wessington Springs High School. In 1975, he became the manager of the South Dakota State Fair and retired from his banking career in 2012 after 33 years. In 2016, ...