Helping the poor – a Kiwi woman’s dedication - Business - Travel

Helping the poor – a Kiwi woman’s dedication

She built a career on making millions for the rich, but Dunedin-born Audette Exel is now dedicated to helping the poor.

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11th August, 2012

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To enter the Alice in Wonderland existence of Audette Exel, you could do worse than go down the rabbit hole and poke your head up into the ancient former kingdom of Nepal. Weddings are erupting around the capital, Kathmandu, with a flourish of trumpets and beating drums. Cows amble across the street amid dust storms and endless traffic jams, vying for space with urchins, holy men and hawkers, all under the looming presence of the Himalayan mountains. A monkey walks past Exel’s hotel room as she works via email on a half-billion-dollar sale of a European banking group. The negotiations are ...

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