Dutch princess Mabel van Oranje is the Chief Executive Officer of The Elders an organisation whose mission it is to promote peace and stand up for injustice. The Elders are an independent group of eminent global leaders, brought together by Nelson Mandela, who offer their collective influence and experience to support peace building, help address major causes of human suffering and promote the shared interests of humanity.
Before her current activities for the Elders, she was co-founder of the European Action Council for Peace, the European thinktank European Council on Foreign Relations and Warchild Netherlands. Also she was director of EU affairs of the Open Society Institute in Brussels. She is a member of the worldwide Forum of Young Global Leaders, a thinktank and lobbygroup that aims to tackle global issues. In 2005, the World Economic Forum named her one of its Young Global Leaders.
At TEDxAmsterdam 2009, Princess Mabel van Oranje discussed very passionately the various conditions to achieve change: what are the conditions for creating it, how can we measure it, and how do we know when we’re achieving it?
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• Pricess Mabel on twitter
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