BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT MADAME SABINE BALVE
Global Movement Networker | Philanthropist | Independent Advisor about Global Challenges in the 21st Century
FOUNDER & PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD LEADERS FORUM DUBAI https://www.worldleadersforumdubai.com
Founder and Global Campaigner of Global Tolerance Faces https://www.globaltolerancefaces.com
Native German – 35 years International Experiences | Cosmopolitan lived in Europe, Middle East, West Africa, and North America | in 8 countries | Fluent speaking German, English, and Italian | Knowledge of languages French, Spanish and Arabic
Madame Sabine Balve, Multiple Awarded Global Campaigner, Digital Media Influencer, Change Maker. Her Slogan and commitment during the UNITED NATIONS OF WOMEN in Washington DC with Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey
Her Global Brandmark World Leaders Forum Dubai, Global Movement 100 Million Times viewed in 119 Countries. 200.000 International Members and organic viewings of up to 500.000 times on Pinterest per year.
Her private Brandmark Madame Sabine Balve, A former world-renown designer and banker from a german family with important media background and roots in Germany, Luxembourg, and France.
“We move from 4,48 billion people online today to as many as six billion by the end of the decade… so there is a great need to rethink which kind of energy gets used. I am driven by the urge to rethink paradigms and reimagine a better future for our planet, people and all life beings on it.” – Madame Sabine Balve
Earlier Years
PLACE OF BIRTH
Sabine Balve, German (disambiguation) Sabine née Sabine Starke; born in Saarbrücken, which is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany.
HER BIRTHPLACE
Saarbrücken | The Capital of the State of Saarland | Germany 🇩🇪
Location of the town of Saarbrücken within Saarbrücken district [show] Coordinates 49°14′0″N 7°0′0″E
Saarbrücken used to be the industrial and transport center of a great coal basin. Its location on the border between France and Germany and close to the border to Luxemburg has given Saarland a unique history.
GEOGRAPHY
The German state Saarland borders France (department of the Moselle, which forms part of the region of Lorraine) to the south and west, Luxembourg to the west, and Rheinland-Pfalz to the north and the east.
“Saarschleife” (Bend in the River Saar) near Mettlach, has the biggest forest in all of Germany
It is named after the Saar River, a tributary of the Moselle River (itself a tributary of the Rhine), which runs through the state from the south to the northwest. Most inhabitants live in a city agglomeration on the French border, surrounding the capital of Saarbrücken.
HER CHILDHOOD
Sabine’s family spent most weekends outdoors at their weekend retreat close to the French/German border. One-third of the land area of Saarland is covered by forest, the biggest forests in all of Germany.
THE FRENCH INFLUENCE ON THE UPBRINGING OF SABINE
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About Saarland in Germany 🇩🇪 … It’s a bit French 🇫🇷 🙂
In 1815 Saarbrücken came under Prussian control, and for two periods in the 20th century (1919–35 and 1945–57) it became part of the Saar territory under French administration. For this reason, coupled with its proximity to the French border, it retains a certain French influence.
Given its location in the western tri-border region of Germany, it’s not much of a surprise that the Saarland is a melting pot of cultures. Locals embrace their Francophile identity – like their French neighbors, they love good food and socializing, they top the German charts of champagne consumption per capita, and French is a mandatory subject for all school kids.
AS A YOUNG GIRL
Madame Sabine as a young girl | At the german french border in Germany | Being out in nature helped her see the cycle of life
RESPECTING NATURE | ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Spending most of her weekends close to nature has had a profound impact on Sabine’s views of life, of respecting nature and most importantly the Forrest as an important part of the ecological system. Paying attention to the fact that humans only play a minor role in it, and need to accept their role of caretaker and not simply owning Mother Earth!
Protecting the environment, reducing waste, and making a positive contribution to biodiversity
BILINGUAL EDUCATION
The german school systems in Saarland are bilingual (German/French) and as per choice, additional languages such as English, Spanish, Latin are offered.
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INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS IN SAARLAND, GERMANY 🇩🇪
Being raised as a child bilingual and later multilingual
Expanded Sabine’s Cultural and Social Perspectives on the World
GETTING A BROADER PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORLD
Sabine chose at school as a first language french, (german is her mother tongue) and as a second foreign language english. Later on, she learnt italian and spanish, while living abroad and has as well basic knowledge in classic arabic.
BOOKWORM
A Memoir of her Childhood Reading A Book per Day
You don’t spend your time hanging around books without learning a thing or two… 🙂
WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING… IN ANY STAGE OF LIFE 🌹
Learning is essential to our existence. Just like food nourishes our bodies, information and continued learning nourish our minds.
Already as a young girl, I understood The Growth Curve. We do it by learning.
“READING IS POWER + KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!”
Reading encouraged my life goals and it grew my wish as a little girl to understand and explore the WHOLE WORLD!
SINCE 2010 | THE INTERNET | FOR EVERYONE | INTERNET SOCIETY
How The Internet Opened Up a New World of Business Opportunities
The Internet is generally defined as a global network connecting millions of computers. More than 190 countries are linked into exchanges of data, news, and opinions. The Internet is a massive network of networks and its FREE.
As of January 2021 there were 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide – 59.5 percent of the global population. Of this total, 92.6 percent (4.32 billion) accessed the internet via mobile devices. Internet users spend an average of 6 hours and 56 minutes online every day.
A JOURNEY THROUGH EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
As a Global Citizen 🌎
Traveling the World Made Me a Better Entrepreneur✌️😍
As a child, I discovered the world through books. Later as a young lady I explored the world through travels millions of kilometers…
Since 2010 ‘I connect the business world through Internet’ … by bridging time and distance in seconds with the modern communications tools of digital media and conference video calls.
ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF LIFELONG LEARNING
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. …“Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel.” Today, continuous learning forms a necessary part of acquiring critical thinking skills and discovering new ways of relating to people from different cultures
There are always new skills to learn and strategies for you to adopt, and you should never stop learning as it enables you to: Generate new ideas – do not just stick to what you know.
PARENTS
FATHER & MOTHER 🌹
Madame Sabine Balve is the daughter of Jürgen and Siegrid Starke. She was born in the Federal Republic of Germany to a family of all German backgrounds. The family tree goes back 700 years.
ABOUT HER FATHER | HIS WORK
At ‘EUROPE ONE’ | The largest TV, RADIO SENDER in FRANCE
Telecommunications tower, antenna and satellite dish, network repeaters, base transceiver station, and city at night.
TV Video Presentation media and live streaming record and broadcast in real-time.
Her Father was for 35 years a member of the supervisory board and member of the works council at Europe One, the largest TV and radio station in France.
The TV and Radio Senders are based on the french/german border and in Paris, France, where the headquarters is of EUROPE ONE.
ABOUT HER MOTHER ❤️
Sabine’s mother is a truly unique, loving, caring, and strong mom. She was a housewife and in charge of bringing up Sabine and her four years older sister Marion. This is a tribute to a mother of the last century who performed her duty to her family with perfect dedication, diligence, and concern. Like all other moms, hers was a story of indomitable courage, perseverance, and indefatigable patience. We pay our tributes and gratitude to her, and, to all other mothers.
For many, our mother’s presence in our lives is an obvious things and forget to thank them for the little things they do and what they have sacrificed for us. They encourage us, help us, cry with us, laugh with us and sometimes, we just forget that a simple “Thank you, Mom” can go a long way.
HER FATHER INFLUENCE ON HER DEVELOPMENT
Madame Sabine’s father – now retired – was also a (partial) believer in the theories of Karl Marx and socialist rules.
Madame Sabine’s father had a strong influence on her development, this included integrity, high moral standards, ethical values, and critical thinking, Lutheran and protestant believes, to question rules of institutions, to remain open-minded, and to reform whatever needs to be reformed. To overcome unfairness and to better the situation of underprivileged people. To maintain the free spirit and thinking in pursuit of a better world and environment.
Madame Sabine Balve is a strong believer in thinking freely ‘Outside the Box’ and not under the doctrine of public dictate, a corset with all its negative inconsistencies.
Madame Sabine is a free spirit. A 21st Century Reformer for a Sustainable World in Peace!
RELIGION
Madame Sabine Balve | Alpenpanorama | Hochries in Bavaria, Germany
HER CHRISTIAN FAITH
Protestant Church of Germany
Madame Sabine was baptized in the Protestant Church of Germany. Protestantism is one of the three major groupings (Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism) within Christianity. A movement that had its origins in the early 16th century. It was propagated by Martin Luther, (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) a German Augustinian priest.
ABOUT MARTIN LUTHER
A German theologian and religious reformer who was the catalyst of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther’s monument on the market square of Eisleben, Germany
Martin Luther translated the Bible from Latin into German and his 95 theses criticizing the teachings of the Church, particularly in Thesis 86, which asks: “Why does the pope, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with the money of poor believers rather than with his own money?” led to the breaking away from the Catholic Church.
Madame Sabine’s free-thinking spirit is a perfect match for the teachings of her protestant church. In Sabine’s opinion, the freedom to be a freethinker in believing in God and his creation gives one the space for creativity and the outlook to change what needs to be changed or better: reformed. As she would put it:
“A freethinker is defined as one who arrives at his beliefs through the use of reason, science, logic, and empiricism rather than by relying exclusively on dogma, tradition, and authority.” – Madame Sabine Balve
DIALOG WITH THE HEAD OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Benedict XVI, original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger, (born April 16, 1927, Marktl am Inn, Germany), bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church (2005–13).
PRIVATE AUDIENCES
With Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger | Future Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI, original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger, bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church (2005–13).
With her open-mindedness at heart, it may not come as a surprise, that Madame Sabine has met several times the future Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus XVI; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, former Kardinal Ratzinger in Bavaria, Germany).
Cardinal Ratzinger becomes later the head of the Catholic church until 28.February 2013.
Bavaria was the second home of Madame Sabine Balve.
Among the invited guests were Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, a German prince, a good friend, and business partner of Madame Sabine. Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern was through his marriage to Princess Birgitta of Sweden, the brother-in-law of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
In 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger chose to be known as Pope Benedict XVI. The name harkened to St. Benedict, the patron saint of Europe.
Benedict XVI immediately took steps to continue John Paul’s dialogue with Judaism and Islam and with other Christian churches. Further, he declared that one of the goals of his papacy would be to revitalize the Catholic church in Europe.
APPRENTICESHIP – CITIBANK
ABOUT THE CITIBANK
In 1976, under the leadership of CEO Walter B. Wriston, First National City Bank (and its holding company First National City Corporation) was renamed Citibank, N.A. (and Citicorp, respectively). By that time, the bank had created its own “one-bank holding company” and had become a wholly-owned subsidiary of that company, Citicorp. In the 80′ City Bank bought the German KKB Bank and become the biggest bank for private clients at that time in the world.
In 1981 out of 1.400 candidates Madame Sabine Balve was chosen for a special formation as the youngest of all applicants in Germany and she becomes the selected speaker of all trainees in Germany. This gave her direct access to the CEO of City Bank Germany to shape the future programs of all trainees and to give her advice as to the transformation process of KKB Bank – a formerly exclusively private bank – to an all service bank like City Bank KGaA.
During two years of in-house training, Madame Sabine traveled and lived all over Germany and assisted in creating a special service center for all trainees of the Bank close to cologne in Germany.
MARRIAGE
HER HUSBAND
Madame Sabine was married for seven years to Frederic, Jules, Robert Balve (he died in 1991). Her husband was a german citizen, an entrepreneur, a former financial banker and broker, and the owner of a small bank, the MKB Bank in Germany.
Her husband was a member of a prominent, intellectual family, a developer, and inventor of many patents in Germany.
Media Group RTL TV, Luxemburg & Germany
The RTL Group is presently Europe’s second-largest TV, radio and production company. It is Europe’s leading entertainment corporation, the majority-owned by German media giant Bertelsmann.
His brother was a successful pioneer of the set-up of RTL Television in Luxemburg and Germany.
During that time Sabine took a great interest in her husband’s and their family business activities. She gained experience in several fields and the many facets of her husband’s professional interests. This has helped her to build up her own career.
International Business Banking, Finance and Media
Madame Sabine lived with her husband in Lugano, a town and a municipality in southern Switzerland 🇨🇭in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino bordering Italy. Besides their home in Suisse 🇨🇭 (banking/investment sector), they spent also a lot of time in Luxemburg 🇱🇺 (banking, media, and family), in Togo, 🇹🇬 West Africa (Gold Trade), and in Germany 🇩🇪 (family and clients). They traveled extensively throughout the world as key advisers to corporate, financial, and banking decision-makers. They have one son Frank Balve, born in 1986. Her husband Frederic Balve died of an accident in Lugano, Switzerland ( 🥀 1991).
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