 My name is Giorgio Amureggi-Roghe. I work as the manager for lifestyle publishing under the larger ABCD program, Accelerator Virtual Development Program, this is my own opinion. And I contribute to influencing decision makers as I work in Aero. And my story today with Atresta, I was born in the Rift Body part of, at the northern part of the Rift Body of the Kenan section, at a place called NMS. And it's an African way of referring to end of the base. And it was referring to the end of the base of Mount Eldon, which is a mountain that's on the western part of Kenan and Giganan border. At three years we shifted to a new area. At that time it was after Kenan independence and therefore they were settling in Africans, to the former white island, as we used to refer to them those days. And my father was a beneficiary of the settlement schemes. And we got a farm in a place called Cherameni. And as it were, those settlements were, those small, those large farms were divided against most stakeholders who used to work for those white farms. And therefore it was my first interaction with multi-culture, multi-ethnic environment. And at ten years old, my father decided to take me to a private school. The reason that I was hanging out with the boys, whom according to him were not serious with education, and he took me to a private school that was based among Paso production people. I called the Pocots, believe the same, they were good. And I stayed there for the next four years in my primary education and four years for my old levels. And at the end of the year I was speaking the local language, that is Pocot language. On my A levels, I went to Central Kenya, which is more or less highland. And I went to a national school, for those of our Kenyans know that. These are schools that used to admit students from across the home country. So I was exposed to another very elaborate multi-culture settlement. After three years I joined another really multi-culture class in the veterinary school in Paso Narok, where I interacted with everybody from the country in the veterinary class for four years. And after I got my bachelor degree in veterinary medicine, I got a job with the government of Kenya and I was posted to a place called Moyale, which is the farthest northern point of Kenya and the border of Kenya and Ethiopia. It turned out that Moyale itself was also a multi-cultural environment. And besides, it was my first contact with my Muslim colleagues and producers. And looking at that point, I started appreciating what I had prepared for all my life as I moved from one part of Kenya to the other, interacting with different ethnic groups and different cultural environment. So here I arrived in Moyale and after that my veterinary charge decided that I need to go out and train camo keepers. There had been a place called North Hall in the general area of Moyale in Masvid and there had been a recent outbreak of anthrax in sheep and goat and those are also the people who keep camo. And I was asked by my charge to go and train the hadas on the dangers of anthrax to humans. There I go with my driver in my government, Land Rover and arriving I meet hadas sitting under a tree. There are about 20 to 30 elders, a big acacia tree and each one of them was sitting on a traditional stool that they had come with from their houses waiting for this young, graduate, energetic, knowledgeable veterinarian so direct from the universe they had been told and they waited and special and I went and it was a nice environment. I talked to them and they ended immediately and I could really collect this from my cultural exposure and therefore I started training them on the dangers of really anthrax to humans and within the one hour it was very exciting, very participatory and everybody excited including myself but as I moved to the next session in an hour somewhere midway I realized the elders were no longer excited with my training and they were like why? From one element I thought well let me tell them what I feel and I told them through my translator because it was not in my ethnic community that please tell the elders that I don't really understand why we are all of a sudden not moving at the pace we are moving and tell them I think they are very, very slow that was the most defining moment of my profession immediately without wasting time an elder shot up his hand he was a really old elder, about 70 years old and that was signaling that he wanted to talk and my translator told me yes the elder says he wanted to tell you something and I said yeah go ahead, let him tell me and the elder stood up slowly because he was quite elderly using his overworking stick and told the translator please tell the doctor the doctor is what he works for doctor tell the doctor this it is not us who are slow it is him who is too fast for us it is one of the greatest lens I have ever learned in my life and I have carried it all along with me when I stepped back out of that situation momentarily and I was able to look at that lesson and fast forward to three years, nine months ago I joined URI, not as a researcher but I came from the developing world and armed with 22 years of regional and national development experience and the elder's lesson the elder was called Elema Quanchora I think he was a genius in my view I went to URI and here I am not a researcher but I am supposed, and that's what I do I want the researchers to take innovations, technologies and tested and proven management practices to scale and then I come to that environment which is not my comfort zone and I start wondering where do I start with this great eminent world neon scientist that I have to work with to take these innovations to scale wait a minute, I remember Elema Quanchora's lesson and what he told me so I step back on myself here it's me, I have to start with me I have to evaluate myself on how I want to interact with the scientist to be able to do the job that we need to do both of us and that lesson helped me to evaluate myself helped me to interact with the scientist helped me to start with myself to be able to do such a quick trust building between me and the scientist and we started off working together and those scientists are working with me now we've done so much with them and for this lesson that I learned I keep on asking myself am I where I want to be and if not, could it be that I'm not listening to the Elema Quanchora's of this world and I ask all of us as every family as we work towards our great calling of influencing policymakers are we where we want to be as an institution if not, is it because we are not here in distance of the Elema Quanchora's of this world thank you