Georgette Boele

Georgette Boele is Coordinator of Currency and Commodities Strategy at ABN AMRO Bank N.V.’s Group Economics. After studying at the University of Amsterdam, where she specialized in organizational science and financial markets, she spent a number of years in life insurance, mortgage lending and pensions before switching to financial markets. In 1998, after taking an internal training program, Ms. Boele started at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. as currency dealer. In 2000, she moved to the company’s private banking arm in Switzerland, where she remained until September 2011. Ms. Boele specialized in various financial markets, and was awarded a doctorate by Rushmore University for her book Strategic Market Analysis. After that, she began specializing in precious stones. She holds a Diploma of Gemmology of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain and a Rough Diamond Grader Diploma of the International Gemological Institute. While in Switzerland, she held various posts, including Treasury Specialist, Currency Business Manager, Currency Training and Currency and Commodities Analyst. Since 2006, Ms. Boele has concentrated entirely on currency and commodities market research and has headed up a research team. A year after returning to the Netherlands, she transferred to Group Economics to take up her current position as Coordinator of Currency and Commodities Strategy.