Queen Máxima and Microfinance / Financial Inclusion

[Pink Tulip]

Yes Bevinda, I would like to see some video as well. I had a look on the net but only on English sites, and I couldn't find anything.

[purple_platinum]

i tried to browse for some pictures on the un site and the others, but no luck. perhaps someone else have better luck?
too bad the coverage of this un meeting is not as good as last year when they also have Mathilde of Belgium.

[Marengo]

I believe tonight or last night there was some kind of ball/ reception as well, but I have seen no pictures of it either.

I am impressed by the speech, she seems to be knowing what she is talking about, but then of course she has been a banker for many years. It makes me feel as this project of the UN realy makes a difference, let's hope it does.

[Princess Emma]

This is her profile and her speech at the site of the UN Year of Microcredit 2005.




Princess Máxima
The Hague, Netherlands
Advisor for the International Year of Microcredit 2005
"The Year of Microcredit 2005 will help the world recognise the importance of an inclusive and sustainable financial sectors in fighting poverty and promoting gender equality. A very small loan can change people's lives by enabling them to generate their own income with all the positive consequences that entails. Let us not forget that a dollar earned is worth much more than a dollar received as a donation."
Princess Máxima brings her experience in banking and economics to the Advisors Group. Originally from Buenos Aires, Princess Maxima holds a degree in economics from Universidad Catolica de Argentina. From 1992 to 1995 she worked in the Sales Department of Boston Securities S.A. in Buenos Aires. From July 1996 to March 1998 Princess Máxima worked at HSBC James Capel Inc. in New York, where she was Vice-President of Latin American Institutional Sales. From then until August 1999 she was Vice-President of the Emerging Markets division of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in New York, where she specialized in Equities. She then moved to Deutsche Bank in New York, where she was Vice-President of Institutional Sales until May 2000. Until April 2001, Princess Máxima worked at the EU Representative Office of Deutsche Bank in Brussels. She is married to Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and they have one daughter.

[The Watcher]

Princess Máxima received a microfinance investigation report during a seminar in the ING House in Amsterdam today.

Pictures: ANP

[Maxie]

Originally Posted by The Watcher

Princess Máxima received a microfinance investigation report during a seminar in the ING House in Amsterdam today.

Pictures: ANP

Thanks for the pictures, Watcher!
But why is she hiding behind the report in the second picture? :)

[Adry]

Princess Maxima today
Seeger Press

[elmabruin]

Really nice photo's of Maxima!!!!!

[carlota]

she looked gorgeous. :)
however, think the photos should be in her thread and not in this one...

[The Watcher]

Originally Posted by Maxie

Thanks for the pictures, Watcher!
But why is she hiding behind the report in the second picture? :)

According the caption:

AMSTERDAM - Maxima verbergt haar lach achter het rapport. Prinses Maxima heeft uit handen van Dhr L. Wijngaarden, CEO ING Insurance Nederland, het onderzoeksrapport Microfinanciering ontvangen.

[Maxie]

Originally Posted by The Watcher

According the caption:

Well, she must have been laughing terribly then, because normally she doesn't hide her smile... :)

[purple_platinum]

Originally Posted by The Watcher

Princess Máxima received a microfinance investigation report during a seminar in the ING House in Amsterdam today.

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03-02-2006 Princess Maxima at the ING House in Amsterdam

[The Watcher]

Maxima today, visiting FMO

The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) is the international development bank of the Netherlands. FMO invests risk capital in companies and financial institutions in developing countries. FMO's investment portfolio is EUR 2.4 billion and FMO is one of the largest bilateral development banks worldwide. Thanks in part to its relationship with the Dutch government, FMO is able to take risks which commercial financiers are not - or not yet - prepared to take. FMO's mission: to create flourishing enterprises, which can serve as engines of sustainable growth in their countries.

Photo's: FMO

[Maxie]

Maxima was in Arnhem today to hand out the first microcredit to a Start Smart participant. Arnhem is only 15 minutes away from the great city of N. (where I live :p) but I'm suffering from a big blister on my right foot, I can't even wear shoes. And I was determined to go and see the princess! Oh well, luckily picture press europe was there too: :)

Needless, to say: I loved what she was wearing, especially the hat. :)

[Squidgy]

Wonderful pictures Maxie! (& I hope that blister heals up soon, so you can go back to chasing the royals around!:))

Maxima looks terrific today. I love her hat - the style & colour really suit her!

[Marengo]

The jacket and the hat are wonderful, but to me trousers and a hat combined look a bit odd.
Hope your feet heals soon Maxie!

[purple_platinum]

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[popy]

Maxie hope you get better, thanks for the pictures!! Maxima looks great todaylove the hat :)

[Maxie]

Thanks all. I sure do hope I get better soon, because the foot is killing me...:(

That hat Maxima is wearing looks totally different from the side by the way... it's quite an interesting model. :)

[Kelly]

We have had a major flood of Maxima these couple of months. She has been very busy! Thanks for the pictures.