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=== UNSGSA === Queen Máxima currently serves as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA). In September 2009 then UN Secretary-General [[Ban Ki-moon]] designated her to this role in order to raise awareness on the importance of inclusive financial systems for achieving economic and development goals such as [[poverty alleviation]], [[food security]] and education. In her work as UNSGSA, the Queen focuses on how formal [[financial services]] such as savings, [[insurance]], and credit can prevent people from falling into poverty due to expenditures on [[healthcare]], and people who are not able to protect themselves against rising food prices and poverty because they do not have access to basic [[savings account]]s. The role of the UNSGSA is to foster action by governments, private sector, financial system standard setters, and others towards a more inclusive financial system that works for the poor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unsgsa.org/node/1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608153551/http://www.uncdf.org/en/UNSGSA-old|url-status=dead|title=UNSGSA Queen Máxima|date=12 September 2020|archive-date=8 June 2013|website=United Nations|access-date=28 March 2023}}</ref> In later years, her focus as a special advocate expanded to advocating digital financial inclusion, financial health, responsible technology for financial inclusion to support [[Sustainable Development Goals]] and agricultural finance.<ref name="august22"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.undp.org/africa/press-releases/unsgsa-queen-m%C3%A1xima-visit-c%C3%B4te-divoire-senegal-advance-financial-and-digital-inclusion|title=UNSGSA Queen Máxima to Visit Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal to Advance Financial and Digital Inclusion|website=[[United Nations Development Programme]]|date=10 June 2021|archive-date=17 August 2022|access-date=17 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817112440/https://www.undp.org/africa/press-releases/unsgsa-queen-m%C3%A1xima-visit-c%C3%B4te-divoire-senegal-advance-financial-and-digital-inclusion|url-status=live}}</ref> Máxima is also an advocate for increasing access to financial services, improving consumer protection and enhancing financial literacy.<ref name="aug22">{{cite web|url=https://www.royal-house.nl/members-royal-house/queen-maxima/inclusive-finance-for-development|title=Inclusive finance for development|website=Dutch Royal House|date=15 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817110455/https://www.royal-house.nl/members-royal-house/queen-maxima/inclusive-finance-for-development|archive-date=17 August 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> According to the UNSGSA website, she "aims to unlock development opportunities and economic inclusion for all."<ref name="august22"/> Queen Máxima visited several countries on behalf of the United Nations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unsgsa.org/country-visits|title=Country Visits|website=United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development|date=10 November 2020 |access-date=11 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811133745/https://www.unsgsa.org/country-visits|archive-date=11 August 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> She also recorded a video for the launch of the Global Findex Database 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unsgsa.org/speeches/unsgsa-queen-maxima-remarks-launch-global-findex-database|title=UNSGSA Queen Máxima Remarks for the Launch of the Global Findex Database|date=29 June 2022|location=The Hague|access-date=11 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811173836/https://www.unsgsa.org/speeches/unsgsa-queen-maxima-remarks-launch-global-findex-database|archive-date=11 August 2022|url-status=live|website=United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development}}</ref> Queen Máxima is also the honorary patron of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) since June 2011. In this role she works with governments and partners to advance the G20 Action Plan on Financial Inclusion, and the G20 Financial Inclusion Peer Learning Program. Previously, the Queen was a member of the Advisors Group for the United Nations' International Year of [[Microcredit]] 2005<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yearofmicrocredit.org/pages/whosinvolved/whosinvolved_patronsgroup_maxima.asp |title=International Year of Microcredit 2005 |publisher=Year of Microcredit |access-date=28 January 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121126075746/http://www.yearofmicrocredit.org/pages/whosinvolved/whosinvolved_patronsgroup_maxima.asp |archive-date=26 November 2012 }}</ref> and until 2009, was a member of UN Advisors Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors. She also work as the Global Agenda Trustee for the World Economic Forum's Global Challenge Initiative on the Future of the Global Financial System.<ref name="august22">{{cite web|url=https://www.unsgsa.org/the-unsgsa|title=Queen Máxima as the UNSGSA|website=United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development|date=15 September 2020 |access-date=11 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811132316/https://www.unsgsa.org/the-unsgsa|archive-date=11 August 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> Máxima convened the CEO Partnership for Economic Inclusion.<ref name="august22"/>
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