Ladies Lunch at Laeken + Breast Cancer Conference

12 March 2019

After a week of holidays, queen Mathilde was back at work.

At noon, the king & queen received a number of female guests for lunch at Laeken castle in honour of International Women's Day.

Their guests were:

- Jennifer Beauloye, founding member of BeMuseum.
- major general in the airforce, Lutgardis Claes.
- Imke Courtois, former professional football player.
- Photographer Bieke Depoorter.
- Adeline Dieudonné, playwright and author.
- Prof. Firouzeh Nahavandi, Director of the Centre for Studies on International Development (ULB).
- Trees Paelinck of Fairtrade Belgium en General Manager of Women on Board.
- Laurence Rase, Director of the Flemish Taekwondo Federation.
- Anne-Catherine Trinon, CEO of Altavia-ACT.
- Prof. Karine Van Doninck, Biologist & researcher at UNamur.
- Birgit Van Hout, European Representative at the Office of the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York.
- Annick Van Overstraeten, CEO of Lunch Garden Group.

In the afternoon queen Mathilde attended a conference on the medical treatment of patients with breast cancer. The conference was organized at Flagey by the Jules Bordet Institute.

Mathilde is the honorary chairwoman of BIG - Breast International Group.