 My name is Dan Feldman. I was Tufts class of 1989 and in 1987-88 I was in the epic of covert action in U.S. foreign policy and I subsequently continued in the national security and foreign policy round serving at the national security council staff in the Clinton administration and as special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan State Department and the Obama administration. I think IGL is more important than ever before for several different reasons. First of all, because I think that we have to pay far more attention to be a far greater degree of understanding of what's happening globally, the impact of foreign policy and national security trends and what the role of the U.S. will continue to be, especially after the current administration. And so as we're seeing the rise of liberalism around the world in Europe and Asia and elsewhere, what that means for positions that the U.S. should take and how we continue to try to be the, to play a leadership role and to really be the indispensable partner for the growth of democratization when our own democracy seems to be under attack from within. I also think it's really important in especially in this day and age to make sure that students think critically or able to assess information or analytic given the amount of disinformation on through social media and other areas where people get their news from these days. And so to be in an atmosphere like IGL which continues to push students to be more analytic, to think creatively, I think is critically important. And then lastly to have that combination of the academic and the experiential, I think is more important than ever before. And so I commend everything that IGL has accomplished over the last years since its founding and strongly support its continued efforts.