Absolutely. Hello, welcome. [speaking french] thank you for being here. It is a great honor for me to be here and im somewhat intimidated even though its been several years since minister and the president were in office im still intimidated when im around them, but i do want to point out that our titles start with the same word, former. [laughter] so that makes us as equal. [laughter] [inaudible] [laughter] you would have a lot of reason to take that back. [laughter] its so bright i can see, but i know that google is here somewhere. I would like to acknowledge ramon and my partner when i was the ambassador, he was the canadian ambassador to the United States and was a remarkable Career Foreign Service officer for canada and we did work very well together which i think is a model for how ambassadors should work. President clinton looked for a nephew t to a point ambassador o canada, couldnt find one and settled on me. [laughter] so, lets move along. These two gentlemen served as the ke
Former executive director Leadership Council and civil rights. His rent dozens of National Campaigns with bipartisan majorities to strengthen and protect civil rights laws during the reagan and bush presidencies. His been very active since the in the front of my first 37 years. Leslie is working on a nonpartisan initiative, the democracy project which focus on Electoral Reform. She firmly worked as a white house staffer and at the manhattan institution. Peterson is the dean of fellow he was the 2014 republican candidate for california secretary of state. Had he run in another state, he may have succeeded. Trevor potter, former chairman on the election commission, former attorney for senator john mccain, and president george hw bush, i seem not at the same time. Is working in areas of Campaign Finance and elections, political communication government ethics. My co moderator is the Vice President for Student Group is a standalone Student Group were proud to be associated with them. He is