[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