First stop, Washington. On March 23, 2022, the Queen Maxima from the Netherlands began its trip to the United States with a meeting with Janet Yellen. This is the US Treasury Secretary, Joe Biden’s Minister of Finance. The wife of King Willem-Alexander was in the USA as part of her function as Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA). The two women, who had already briefly met at the G20 summit in Rome , discussed the importance of making financial health measurable in the policy of governments and regulators. On the initiative of the wife of the Dutch sovereign, a working group on financial health was created in 2020.
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In Washington, Queen Maxima also met with representatives of international development organizations with which she works as UNSGSA, including the heads of the International Monetary Fund, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor and the Managing Director of the World Bank Group’s development policy. Additionally, she spoke with the Interim Comptroller of the Currency, an independent body of the US Treasury Department that oversees national banks. Besides the measurability of financial health, how digital financial services can contribute to countries’ economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic was on his agenda.
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Maxima saw Antonio Guterres in New York
The next day, the mother of princesses Catharina-Amalia, Alexia and Ariane was in New York. Apart from a meeting with the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, she had talks with the United Nations Under-Secretary General and Director of the Office of External Relations and Advocacy at the United Nations Development Program, and the three co-chairs, Indonesian, Peruvian and Tanzanian, of the Group of Friends of Financial Inclusion. Queen Maxima also participated in a roundtable on the topic of financial health in private sector financial services, organized by the Financial Health Network.
Queen Maxima @UNSGSA visits Washington DC and New York on the contribution of (digital) financial inclusion to the economic recovery after the corona pandemic and financial health. https://t.co/hd9B5ecnkv pic.twitter.com/v4OVLt8cSQ
— Royal House (@Royal House) March 25, 2022
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