 All right, so I'm Ann-Marie Slaughter. I am the president and CEO of New America, and for those of you who are here for the first time, welcome to our new space, and we hope you'll come back often. It is, we're in for a really fascinating afternoon, and I will start by saying just how path-breaking I think this work is on digital globalization and more generally on looking at the world through the lens of connectedness. Now I will, full disclosure, it's easier to say it's path-breaking work when they're breaking the same path I'm on, and indeed in 2009, I wrote an article about how America was much more powerful in this century than most people thought because it was the most connected nation in a networked world, and that if you think about a world that is horizontal and networked and that's old news in the business literature and many other literatures, if that's the way you see the world, then the measure of power is connectedness. Now this was slightly a lonely view, and I was out actually at PIMCO giving an hour-long presentation talking about the chessboard view of the world and the web view of the world and how we really had to see the world in terms of the web and getting beaten up, and just before I went out there, there came McKinsey's first report, this is the second building on that, on the connectedness index and how to see the world in terms of networks and flows, and I have been grateful to them ever since, but I also think that they are really pioneering in quantifying and measuring something we all say at the start of every talk. We are more connected than ever, we're more interdependent than ever. They are really trying to break down what that means, and as I said, to measure it, to quantify it, and they look at the flows, the networks and flows of goods and services, of finance, of people, and of data. When I look at the world instead of breaking it out in terms of finance and services, you can also look at flows of energy and increasingly flows of climate, right, in the sense of how is climate altering the flows, I'm not just a migrant, so that's people, but thinking about desertification, thinking about water shortages, all of that, it's a very useful perspective there as well, what region is connected to what, depending on where the river source is, or how they are affected by global climate. So I wanna just start by admiring the way that I think increasingly all of us will have to think about the world. The second thing these reports do is to really highlight the ways in which the digitalization of the economy empowers small and medium enterprise and empowers small countries. And again, as a foreign policy person, Costa Rica, Singapore, Finland, many small countries can be far more powerful in the world than the traditional way of measuring power. And one of these reports looks at that that if you're a country that effectively makes yourself a platform for digital data flows, you have a kind of power, you may have a kind of vulnerability also, and I'll come to that in a moment, but you have a kind of power that traditional measures of power simply cannot capture. Singapore is small, small people, small economy relatively, but it can be much more powerful than we might think. And in the US analog is smaller cities, that similarly you could be in Chattanooga or Charleston or Austin and have much more weight in the digital economy than you might have had in the industrial economy. And there, if you read the cover of the Atlantic, this month's Atlantic, Jim Fallows talking about American cities renewing themselves, something that we're looking at at New America as well. Now, I would not be true to my New American colleagues if I didn't close by adding a cautionary note. And indeed, as someone at lunch said, these reports are very positive and connectedness is good. It is in many, many ways, but I will just offer a couple of the ways in which many of my colleagues here have questioned this completely digital economy. The possibility for price discrimination, individualized price discrimination, much, much higher when we know everything that we know about you and you can log in from a particular zip code and you can get differential pricing. Just one example of how a monopoly can be abused. The way we think about what war means and we're also war is now among us. It's not just terrorism, it's actually people who are fighting a war but fighting it from wherever they are. This kind of digital connectedness means that the cyber part of that war is also much more alarming in many ways. It will completely transform education and in ways that many of us think are great from a learning point of view, maybe less great from my former occupation as a professor and thinking about US higher education and the advantages in higher education. This levels that playing field but also it will severely change existing higher education institutions which have very high fixed costs. And also human rights and thinking about human rights in a digital economy and a digital world, our human rights are increasingly digital rights and Rebecca McKinnon who's here has an index called ranking digital rights but increasingly those rights of privacy, of security but also of discrimination. Again, one of the things about being that digitally connected you cannot escape your creditors, the government, the various other large institutional entities that can lock you into a particular status. So one of our fellows is writing a book on the digital poor house and it's much harder to escape a particular status. You can't just move, you can't start over, you are tracked and everything that you do is tracked. So I just wanted to highlight some of the downsides of being ever more connected. But with that, let me just tell you what we're gonna be doing for the rest of the afternoon. We're gonna start with James Manika, the head of McKinsey Global Institute who's gonna talk a little bit about the actual papers. And then his co-authors on this report, Susan Lund and Sri Ramaswani will give TED Talks, will then move to two panels. So we're giving you a little of everything this afternoon and have panel discussions. And then finally, we will close with a keynote from Jason Furman. So I will now turn it over to James and we'll take it from there. Thank you very much.