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Carole Brookins served from 2001 to 2005 as the United States Executive Director to The World Bank Group in Washington, DC. She represented the US government as the largest shareholder on the Board of Executive Directors. Appointed by President George Bush, she was confirmed by the US Senate in the summer of 2001. Ms. Brookins was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of World Perspectives, Incorporated, Washington-based strategic advisors providing information, analysis and consulting services to international commodity, financial and government clients. She has been called upon by clients around the world for her work as a policy and trade strategist and is widely recognized for her expertise on the global political economy and its effect on agricultural and food markets. Ms. Brookins founded World Perspectives in 1980 after seven years as Vice President in the Commodities Department of E.F. Hutton & Company, Inc. in New York City. Ms. Brookins was on the Board of Directors of Terra Industries Inc., a leading producer of nitrogen and methanol, as well as on the boards of the international development trust Winrock International, U.S. National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (PECC), the Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC) and its Food Committee, the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IAMA) and The Atlantic Council. She also served as a member of the North American Advisory Board of Rabobank International and the International Advisory Committee of CoBank, the World Agricultural Forum Advisory Board and the Advisory Council to Save the Children. | 