 Madam President distinguished guests first of all to our graduates my personal congratulations very well done We do hope your time here at SOS has been rewarding and that it will stay with you as you progress in your careers the school has many brilliant teachers and We do make it a point to reward these qualities by honoring each year the best of our teaching and support staff and The price is open to any member of staff and this year. We've had record number of nominations exceeding a hundred So the task of selecting from the final short list has been Very difficult but highly rewarding We have four categories of awards the first four graduate teaching Assistants and teaching fellows in recognition of their commitment to teaching and engaging students. We have two winners here The first prize goes to miss Benedetta Land Frankie Benedetta teaches on African philosophy and we also have a second winner who's unfortunately not here today who's Jerosimo Surpers who teaches government and politics of the Middle East the second category of Awards for inspirational teaching We have dr. Elena Retova who teaches Afrophone philosophy Again, we have a joint winner here alien whitesman who teaches Israeli politics and unfortunately unable to be here this morning For innovative teaching the price goes to dr. Simon Omira who teaches architectural boundaries and the body and Finally our support staff they provide excellent student experience without whom the students can be here today We have three winners here two of whom are not present this morning miss Hifza Tariq Karen Philport, but we have mr. Jeff foot it