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H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands

UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Financial Health (UNSGSA)

As Special Advocate, Queen Máxima is a leading global voice for the development of financial services, products, and policies that have financial health as the main goal. Through strategic and sustained advocacy, the UNSGSA encourages cooperation and commitment from political leaders, regulators, global standard-setting bodies, civil society, the private sector, and, most importantly, financially underserved groups, to build a more secure and resilient future.

Financial Inclusion

Twenty-four percent of the world’s adults struggle to get by without the basic financial services they need to protect themselves against hardship and invest in their futures. Financial inclusion seeks to unlock development opportunity and improve the lives of all, especially the poor, by expanding access to quality financial tools. Affordable, effective, and safe financial services—savings, insurance, payments, credit, and more—can play a transformative role by fostering equitable growth and furthering vital development goals such as poverty reduction, job creation, gender equality, and food security.

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