High Profilers – Page 15

Robert H. Garff, businessman & politician

30Mar

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Robert H. Garff, businessman & politician

Robert Heiner Garff ‑ an American businessman and politician who served as chair of the Ken Garff Automotive Group – died of Covid-19 on March 29, 2020. He also served as the speaker of the Utah House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987. Garff was born on September 15, 1942, the son of Marjorie Heiner and Kendall D. Garff. He attended the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and an MBA in 1967. The Ken Garff Automotive Group is a large car dealership conglomerate, founded in 1932 by Bob's father. The company or one of its dealerships, according to a January 2004 survey conducted by Dan Jones & Associates, was the second-most mentioned car dealership by Utahns ...

25Mar

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Lorenzo Acquarone, lawyer & politician

Lorenzo Acquarone –an Italian lawyer and politician – succumbed to Covid-19 on 24 March 2020. Born in Ventimiglia, Acquarone graduated in law and became a lawyer and university lecturer. As a member of the Italian People's Party, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for three legislatures. In 2002 he participated in the formation of the new political entity called the "Margherita" or Democracy is Freedom - The Daisy, but in September 2003 decided to leave the party to join the Popular-UDEUR. On 27 December 2007, Acquarone was awarded the Knight Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Italian Republic - uniform ribbon. Acquarone died at the age of 89 on 24 March 2020 due to COVID-19 in Italy.

24Mar

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Carole Brookins, political economist

Carole Brookins ‑ an American executive director of the World Bank and an expert on the global political economy ‑ died on March 23, 2020 in Palm Beach, Florida of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brookins attended the University of Oklahoma, graduating in 1965, and entered Wall Street in the early 1970s after being hired by EF Hutton, then one of the United States' largest stock brokerages. In 1980, she founded a company named World Perspectives, which focused on agricultural market analysis. 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, George H.W. Bush n...

22Mar

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Jacques Oudin, politician

Jacques Oudin, a French politician, succumbed to Covid-19 on 21 March 2020. He was 80 years old. He was member of the Senate of France from 1986 to 2004, representing the department of Vendée.

22Mar

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Aileen Baviera, political scientist

Aileen San Pablo Baviera ‑ a Filipino political scientist and sinologist ‑ died of pneumonia caused by the COVID-19 at the San Lazaro Hospital, Manila. She contracted the disease on March 12, when she returned after participating in a security conference in Paris, France. She was one of two Filipino delegates - the other being Dr. Alan T. Ortiz - who were exposed to the disease at the conference and later succumbed to it. Baviera was the widow of Jorge Villegas Baviera, who died in 2018, and had three children. She was one of the leading China experts in her country. In October 1979, Baviera received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, cum laude at the University of the Philippines. As a student of modern Chinese history at th...

21Mar

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Marino Quaresimin, politician

Marino Quaresimin ‑ was an Italian politician ‑ died of COVID-19 on 20 March 2020 in Vicenza, aged 82.. He was born in Vicenza, Italy. Quaresimin was Mayor of Vicenza from 1995 to 1998. During his political career, he was a member of the Italian People's Party, but later switched to The Daisy party. From 1999 to 2008, he was a member of the Vicenza city council.

20Mar

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Hamid Kahram, politician

Hamid Kohram –an Iranian politician and veterinarian who served as a member of the Iranian Parliament representing Ahwaz between 2000 and 2004 ‑died of Covid-19 on 19 March 2020. He was also the Director General of Scholarships Office and Student Exchange, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. During the 2017 presidential election, Kohram was the head of Hassan Rouhani's campaign in Khuzestan province.

17Mar

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Nicolas Alfonsi, politician

Nicolas Alfonsi –a French politician, member of the Senate of France, representing the department of Corse-du-Sud – succumbed to coronavirus on 16 March 2020. He was born in Cargèse, Corsica. He was a member of the Radical Party of the Left, and was by profession a lawyer. Alfonsi died on 16 March 2020 of COVID-19.

17Mar

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Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani, politician

Sayyid Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani –an Iranian Shia Marja' and representative of the Tehran Province in Iran's Assembly of Experts – died on 16 March 2020 from coronavirus. He studied at the Qom Seminary. Bathaie ran under the People's Experts and the Friends of Moderation electoral list in the 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election. Golpayegani claimed that "America is the source of coronavirus, because America went head to head with China and realised it cannot keep up with it economically or militarily." On February 22, Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani announced at a ceremony that he had been infected with COVID-19, but had healed himself using an "Islamic remedy". Three weeks ...

17Mar

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Francesco Saverio Pavone, magistrate

Francesco Saverio Pavone –an Italian magistrate, chief of the Procura di Venezia for several years – died of Covid-19 on 16 March 2020. Born in Taranto on March 25, 1944, he worked for several years as a clerk of the court, where he had won a competitive examination in the late 1970s. In 1980 he took up service in the courthouse in Venice, first in the role of judge in the court and then as prosecutor. In the lagoon city he dealt with investigations on organized crime and kidnappings. In 1988 Pavone's "pool" (group of magistrates in the same case) brought to light the complete organization chart of the Mala del Brenta which was wreaking havoc in Veneto, investigations that led in 1994 to the trial that dismantled the Mala del Brenta, with Felice...