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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...

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...

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Carole Brookins, political economist

Aileen Baviera, political scientist