New Chair for Financial Supervision appointed.

The Kingdom Council of Ministers and the Council of Ministers in the Netherlands dealing with the Caribbean Netherlands, have appointed drs. Lidewijde Ongering as the new chairperson of the three boards of financial supervision as of February 01st 2023. Ms. Ongering succeeds professor dr. Raymond Gradus who was chair of these boards from July 01st 2017.

The Position of Chair of the Boards for financial supervision in the Caribbean means that she will be responsible for supervising the CFT St. Maarten and Curacao, (AFT) The Board of financial supervision Aruba and CFT Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. It is reported that Ms. Ongering comes with a long track record, having worked in  The Hague departments including the Interior Affairs and Kingdom Relations, Economic Affairs and Climate. During her experience working at the Ministry of Health, she held the position of Director of Financial-Economic Affairs.

The New Chairperson Lidewijde Ongering says she is looking forward to taking up the challenges many of which are recognizable to her from a joint perspective. The CFT she says, supervises the budgets and after a number of financially difficult years, the focus is now on recovery and achieving financial responsibility and sustainable economic growth. In my new role as chair of the CFT says Ongering, she plans to approach this seriously. In the meantime outgoing Chairperson Mr Gradus, has bundled his reflections in a book which he plans to present to the Vice President of the Council of State Mr. Thom de Graaf.
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