Dutch Princess Maxima to address Microfinance India Summit

Dutch Princess Maxima (Courtesy: Wikipedia)

Microfinance Focus, Sept. 29, 2009: Dutch Princess Maxima will address the Microfinance India Summit being organised by ACCESS Development Services from Oct. 26 to 28 in New Delhi.

Princess Maxima is the UN Secretary General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance. She was earlier involved in the Advisors Group to the International Year of Microcredit in 2005 and visited Uganda, Kenya, Brazil and Argentina to see microcredit in action and also met with government, business and NGO representatives.

In June 2006, she joined the United Nations Advisors Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors, which addresses the issue of wider access to all financial services for small businesses. The Princess has contributed to the Advisors Group by holding dialogue with businesses, donors, legislators, supervisors, microfinance institutions and international organisations on the role they could play in giving moresmall businesses access to the financial sector.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 17, 1971, she graduated in economics from the Universidad Católica Argentina in 1995. Married to the Netherlands heir-apparent Prince of Orange in February 2002, Princess Maxima has three children.

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