Princess Margarita of Romania - Education and Work

Education and Work

After graduation from the University of Edinburgh, she worked in a number of British universities, specialising in medical sociology and public health policy, later on participating in an international research program coordinated by the World Health Organisation, focused on developing health policy recommendations and preventive pilot projects. In 1983 she moved to Rome and joined the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (UN), where, as a member the World Food Day project team, she worked on the public awareness campaign concerning agricultural programs, nutrition, and poverty alleviation. Three years later she joined the International Fund for Agricultural Development. In the autumn of 1989 she gave up her UN career and moved to Geneva to work with her father, devoting herself entirely to charity work for Romania.

In 1990 Princess Margareta founded The Princess Margarita of Romania Foundation, a non-profit organisation that has contributed to the development of civil society in Romania.

Currently active in 6 countries (Romania, United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, Belgium and the US) the Princess Margareta of Romania Foundation develops programs that:

• improve the living conditions of children and young people, families at risk and the elderly;
• stimulate intergenerational solidarity and create bridges of communication between the young and the elderly;
• contribute to the institutional development of NGOs working with children and seniors;
• foster local creativity and talent.

During its existence, The Princess Margareta Foundation has collected more than 5 million Euro, through which it has contributed to the development of the Romanian civil society.

Since June 2005, School no. 114 in Bucharest has been named after her.