Encyclopedia – Women of the Red Cross and Red Crescent

Princess Christina Magnuson

Princess Christina Magnuson served as a member of the Standing Commission between December 1995 and December 2003. Before joining the Standing Commission, she was President of the Swedish Red Cross, a position she took up in 1993. Prior to that she had been Vice President (1987-1993) and had held various other positions with the Swedish Red Cross, beginning as a volunteer in 1973. Princess Magnuson was also involved internationally in the Movement Chairwomen of the Steering Group for the World Campaign for the Victims of War (1987-1990) as well as representing the Swedish delegation at numerous international conferences of the Movement. She studied at Radcliffe College and at the University of Stockholm. Princess Magnuson received the Henry Dunant medal in 2005. She was born on August 3^rd, 1943 and is married with three sons.[1]

[1] Standing Commission

Princess Margriet of the Netherlands

Princess Margriet served as Chairwomen of the Standing Commission between December 1995 and December 2003. She has been an active part of the Movement since she joined her local branch of the Netherlands Red Cross as a volunteer in 1966. Internationally she has also been involved in the Movement having been both a member and the vice-chairman of the Study Group on the Future of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Outside the Movement, she has been President of the European Cultural Foundation, Patroness of the Foundation “SOS Children’s Villages, the Netherlands” and a Member of the Advisory Committee of the National Association for the Care of the Terminally Ill, amongst others. Princess Margriet studied at the University of Montpellier and Leiden University. She was born in Ottawa, Canada on January 19^th, 1943 and is married with four sons.