[Leica] Nathan's PAD 17/3/2022: back at the OECD

Don Dory don.dory at gmail.com
Sat Mar 19 02:55:23 PDT 2022


Banking empires beget wonderful homes it seems.

On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 3:30 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> I was on a business trip to France this past week, yet another sign of
> return to normality. The main reason was a 2-day meeting at the OECD,
> specifically something called the Task Force on Combatting Illicit Trade, a
> body which concerns itself with all manner of illicit trade, including
> drugs, human trafficking, wildlife, and also counterfeit goods—it is for
> the latter reason that my office is involved. I come to the OECD a couple
> of times a year, but had not been there since 2019, for reasons we all
> know. I enjoyed being back and offer four images.
>
> The OECD HQ consists of two buildings, one big and modern where most of
> its people work:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-jsMXcbN/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-jsMXcbN/A>
>
> The other building is known simply as “the château”; its formal name is
> Château de la Muette, built by one of the Rotschilds in the 1920s on the
> site of earlier chateaux, dating back to the 17th century. Today, it house
> the offices of the Secretary-General of the OECD and the ceremonial meeting
> rooms for the big occasions. I posed in front of the building and my OECD
> colleague Piotr took the picture:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-F7kh8SM/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-F7kh8SM/A>
>
> A selfie inside the Château. I like the sense of history I feel when I
> visit here. A good chunk of the post-war architecture of Europe was
> conceived here:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-HbHSS7c/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-HbHSS7c/A>
>
> And this is the main meeting room in the Château, where I spent the better
> part of Wednesday and Thursday. When not used for big occasions, it is
> available for lower-level gatherings like the one in which I participated,
> especially right now when the main conference centre is still closed due to
> Covid. The meeting of the task force was hybrid, another sign of the times,
> and on the screen, Steve Francis, the acting Executive Associate Director,
> Homeland Security Investigations, is ready in Washington:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-twz9sG4/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-twz9sG4/A>
>
> I did less formal things in France too, those will the subject of other
> posts.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
>
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> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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> YNWA
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