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| Director of the Monaco Government Tourist Office for North America, where she started her U.S. career, Maguy Maccario is also Minister Counselor and Consul General of the Principality of Monaco in New York. Her appointment was made by Prince Rainier III in July, 1997. She also serves as Vice President of the US chapter of The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. As Consul General she is responsible for developing synergy between American and Monégasque cultural and tourism interests.
As the Director of the Monaco Government Tourist Office, her responsibilities include the development of leisure and group business travel to the Principality. She has also initiated numerous significant cultural and cross-promotional programs including the hugely successful annual “Monaco Takes New York” marketing campaign (which has since spread to other US cities). In 2007, she was the driving force behind the internationally lauded “A Celebration of Grace” series of events which raised more than $US1.5 million for the Princess Grace Foundation-USA and captured a combined (international) media audience in excess of 140 million.
In 2008, Ms. Maccario was appointed by His Serene Highness Prince Albert, as Vice President of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation-USA and has since spearheaded many local fundraising and awareness events and partnerships (with, among others, Travel + Leisure magazine, Chicago’s Field Museum, Disney, Tesla, Alliance Française and the American Museum of Natural History in New York) and the creation of Monaco’s Environmental Stewardship Gallery, a customized installation depicting the past, present and future conservation efforts of the Principality. In March 2011, she was named to a 2-person co-coordination committee following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Foundation and The Peregrine Fund.
She is the Dean of the New York City consular corps having served numerous consecutive terms on the Executive Committee of the Society of Foreign Consuls in New York as Vice President for Europe. In 1999, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani presented her with a Certificate of Recognition for her contributions towards improving the role of women in society. In 1996, Mrs. Maccario Doyle was granted the prestigious title of “Chevalier de l’Ordre de Saint-Charles” by Prince Rainier in recognition of her services to the State.
Ms. Maccario vigorously supports various humanitarian causes. In 1998, she was awarded a gold medal from ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in acknowledgement of her services toward its international programs and has, since 2004, served on their Professional Advisory Board. In 2011 she was appointed to the International Advisory Council for ALSAC.
She is a Member of The American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA); a Member of The Foreign Policy Association; a Founding Member of The Luxury Marketing Council and a Member, Advisory Board, The Luxury Educational Foundation in New York, and is one of only two women named “Chevalier de la Commanderie de Bordeaux” by the Commanderie’s New York Chapter. |
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