There is water and coffee in the back so feel free to partake. The restrooms at the end of the hall. If you leave the building you can come back in but you will have to go through security. Those of you who will be participating in the conversation, you have microphones in front of you. You do need to turn them on when you are about to talk. I think theres a button that says talk. Turn it on, the red light will come on which will tell you the microphone is active. Were not speaking, please turn it off. We would appreciate that and you probably prefer we dont hear any private conversations as well. Those were speaking, we appreciate you being here. We ask that you keep your arm remarks to about ten minutes but i will be sitting with the secretary and try not to be obnoxious but i may waive or give you an indication if youre getting close to the ten minutes and asked that you wrap up quickly when that happens. We are looking forward to a great conversation talking about innovation in k12
German Software Giant delivering a mixed bag. Two french luxury stocks today. Shares fall in part to japanese consumer demand and shares in the drinks maker lower. And to our top story in the last couple of hours toshiba announced the resignation of his ceo over the accounting scandal. Hell be replaced by the japanese firms chairman with 8 of the 16 Board Members expected to step down. The changing management is due to this scandal. The president and chief executive will be replaced by the chairman. His predecessor who is vice chairman will also quit. Now we are awaiting for the Leadership Team to announce and tell us about it being made. Its helping the tokyo index approach an 18 year high. The japanese index already trading at a three week high. Investors are cheering the management change. Its going to take time. 8 out of 16 Board Members will be standing down. Thats a lot. Its a big management shake up. More Board Changes to follow they say. Incidentally also now you need to look a
[inaudible conversations] thank you for coming today. Im an Education Research fellow here at the American Enterprise institute. Id like to thank everyone who is joining us here today. Also those who are joining online stream and for our friends watching on cspan. Our event today, Charter Schools in the developing of the world with a keynote from Liberia Education minister. George k. Warner. We have a simple program. After a few introductory remarks, we are going to have a brief video. We are going to give you a couple of those. The root of todays conversations about schools in liberia. Then well turn it over to minister warner and hes going to get his keynote address. Following that, a fantastic panel today with scott andrew from democracy builders, any black firm results from development and Alessandro Favero from the International Finance corporation. I will introduce them in detail when the panel joins me appear. We will have about 45 minutes of q a time with opportunities for the
Thank you all for coming today. My name is natt malcus, an Education Research fellow here at the American Enterprise ens tut. I would like to thank everyone joining us here today, also those who are joining on live stream and for our friends watching on cspan. Our event today, Charter Schools in the developing world with a keynote from Liberian Education minister george k. Werner. We have a simple program. After a few introductory remarks, we will have a brief video. A picture is worth 1,000 words, so we will give you a come of minutes of those, to root todays conversation about schools in liberia. Then we will turn it over to minister werner who will give his keynote address. Following that we have a fantastic panel today with seth andrew from democracy builders, amy black from results from development, and alejandro ka brar owe from the International Finance corporation. I will introduce them in detail when the panel joins me up here. We will have about 45 minutes of q a time with so
Thank you all for coming today. My name is natt malcus, an Education Research fellow here at the American Enterprise ens tut. I would like to thank everyone joining us here today, also those who are joining on live stream and for our friends watching on cspan. Our event today, Charter Schools in the developing world with a keynote from Liberian Education minister george k. Werner. We have a simple program. After a few introductory remarks, we will have a brief video. A picture is worth 1,000 words, so we will give you a come of minutes of those, to root todays conversation about schools in liberia. Then we will turn it over to minister werner who will give his keynote address. Following that we have a fantastic panel today with seth andrew from democracy builders, amy black from results from development, and alejandro ka brar owe from the International Finance corporation. I will introduce them in detail when the panel joins me up here. We will have about 45 minutes of q a time with so