Queen Máxima as UN Advocate for Inclusive Financial Services 1: 2009 - Aug. 2023


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Here’s Queen Máxima‘s contribution to the summit yesterday:

 
She is dressed as if she means business... and she does!
 
Queen Maxima attended an official dinner hosted by Italian President Sergio Mattarella on the occasion of the G20 in Rome.

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More pics from the Leaders’ Side-Event “Supporting SMEs and women-owned businesses to build forward better”

https://www.governo.it/it/media/g20...n-owned-businesses-build-forward-better/18398
 
Looks like she was the guest of honor. Seated directly next to the host/president. President Biden of the USA was on the other side.
 
Today, October 31, Queen Máxima had a meeting with World Bank President David Malpass:


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I feel Queen Máxima's heart, how much she might like to be Queen, is here, in the haute finance. She visibly feels like a fish in the water and can be meaningful indeed.

The Dutch Court and the Government fully support all this, with quite a considerable sum for her expenses made for the UN, but had she not had this opportunity, she probably would have become a depressed royal with a drinking problem or something.
 
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Duc_et_Pair said:
I feel Queen Máxima's heart, how much she might like to be Queen, is here, in the haute finance. She visibly feels like a fish in the water and can be meaningful indeed.

The Dutch Court and the Government fully support all this, with quite a considerable sum for her expenses made for the UN, but had she not had this opportunity, she probably would have become a depressed royal with a drinking problem or something.
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She obviously knows her brief extremely well. She's clearly intelligent & a polyglot. A real credit to The Netherlands.

What I find interesting is the contrast between this & a hypothetical British queen consort. The British Government wouldn't let a member of the rf anywhere near such a role.

Does Dutch public opinion support her involvement as much as the court & government evidently do? Or is there some opposition?
 
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I had hoped that the queen could squeeze in a visit to the Vatican when in Rome but perhaps time constraints and a busy schedule ruled that out.
 
Durham said:
She obviously knows her brief extremely well. She's clearly intelligent & a polyglot. A real credit to The Netherlands.

What I find interesting is the contrast between this & a hypothetical British queen consort. The British Government wouldn't let a member of the rf anywhere near such a role.

Does Dutch public opinion support her involvement as much as the court & government evidently do? Or is there some opposition?
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Sometimes there is critic on the truly globetrotting Queen, not only leaving a gigantic carbon footprint but also focusing on all and everything but not so much at her own home. Luckily Covid was a blessing in disguise because it was the breakthrough of Zoom and Teams.

The Netherlands supports Queen Máxima's UN activities with an amnual budget of € 150.000,--. But the real costs are more as staff from the Court, from ministerial departments, from the State Information Service, from the security services, from embassies are used, as well logistic, facilitary, material support.

When Queen Máxima travels for the UN, she (and her UN-staff) usually use commercial flights. Also to inficate that she is in her UN role, which would become blurred when she arrives at an airport using one of the Government planes with Kingdom of the Netherlands on the livery.
 
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Durham said:
She obviously knows her brief extremely well. She's clearly intelligent & a polyglot. A real credit to The Netherlands.

What I find interesting is the contrast between this & a hypothetical British queen consort. The British Government wouldn't let a member of the rf anywhere near such a role.

Does Dutch public opinion support her involvement as much as the court & government evidently do? Or is there some opposition?
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Oh yes,we support her wholeheartedly and are proud of her worthwhile role on the world financial stage,yes!!!!Opposition?Not really,except for those who would oppose anything anywhere,so,of no significance whatshowever!
 
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Oh yes,we support her wholeheartedly and are proud of her worthwhile role on the world financial stage,yes!!!!Opposition?Not really,except for those who would oppose anything anywhere,so,of no significance whatshowever!
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Who is "we" ?

When the Vox Populi goes on the street: "What is your opinion on our globetrotting Queen working so hard on finances for women in Burkina Faso and Papua-New Guinea?"

Most likely the answer will be: "Burkina Faso? Papua-New Guinea? What about our bloody own neighbourhoods ?!"
 
Thank you Wartenburg7 for the video. The Queen is clearly well respected on the world stage. She was warmly greeted by Angela Merkel and Justin Trudeau. That speaks volumes in my opinion.

She is a tremendous asset to the Dutch Royal Family. However, there must be balance. No one should ever feel like she is doing more internationally than at home.
 
In her role as United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development Queen Máxima held a virtual speech for the opening of the meeting "The Road to Gender Transformative Business Models" on improving the position of female entrepreneurs in agriculture. The opening took place at the IDH-The Sustainable Trade Initiative in Utrecht today, November 15. In the first place it was planned that she would attend the event itself.


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The speech was held in English, here's a copy of the speech.


** unsgsa: The Importance of Gender Intentional Business Models in Agriculture **
 
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Sounds like a timely topic (with Máxima being her messy self).
 
As United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development Queen Máxima has sent a video message for the Indonesia Fintech Summit 2021 held yesterday, December 12.

 
In her role as United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development Queen Máxima talked to Jennifer Tescher in a podcast
from Financial Health Network "on the importance of financial health and financial services to give people more opportunities for economic and social development":


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** podcasts.apple: H. M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands: Building a Financially Inclusive World **


And today, January 26, Queen Maxima had a „virtual meeting with her Reference Group of financial inclusion advisors to discuss some of most pressing issues and challenges related to inclusive finance“:


** unsgsa: Special Advocate Virtually Convenes Reference Group of Financial Inclusion Advisors for First Meeting in 2022 **
 
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In her role as United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development Queen Máxima has pre-recorded a message for the „Digital Disruption & Inclusion: Challenges and Opportunities“ virtual conference that took place today, January 27:

 
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