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Brooks is currently the Chairman and Head of Investment Banking for Southeast Asia.  He was previously the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs (India) Securities Private Limited-responsible for all the firm's businesses in India. Over the course of his fifteen years at Goldman Sachs, Brooks has been based in New York and Hong Kong as well.  His previous responsibilities at the Firm include co-founding the Asia High Technology Group, serving as Chief Operating Officer for Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC, and as a Managing Director in the Financial Sponsors Group. After working as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, Brooks served as a District Electoral Supervisor with the United Nations Transitional Authority for Cambodia from 1992 to 1993 where he managed a district for the United Nations in northern Cambodia, coordinating humanitarian assistance, refugee repatriation and electoral operations. Brooks worked as a summer associate at McKinsey & Co. during the summer of 1994. He also served as an election monitor with The Carter Center in Liberia in 1997 and Mozambique in 1999. Brooks is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council On International Policy and The Explorers Club. He serves on the board of The Aspen Institute India, The Aspen Institute Board of Trustees and Young Life. Brooks is a 2007 Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute and a member of the Bombay Chapter of The Young Presidents Organization (YPO). Brooks earned an A.B. in History from Dartmouth College in 1989 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1995.