 I'm David Shaw and I serve as the Executive Vice President and Provost at Mississippi State University. I've been at the University for over 37 years now. I grew up on family farm in rural Oklahoma and then came to Mississippi State after graduate school at Oklahoma State University. I came on to the faculty in 1985 as an assistant professor in the crop and soil science department there at MSU and have been in several different roles at the University during this last 37 years, including now as the last three years as the Provost and Executive Vice President. Prior to that time I spent about 10 years as the Vice President for research and economic development. The file MSU partnership started in 2010. Would you share what impacts have been achieved to date? Our partnership has been incredibly fruitful, certainly from our standpoint I believe for the partnership itself. So many things have developed because of the relationship that we have. We've had faculty and students that have come here to Rome and to various FAO locations around the world. And we also have partnered and because of that partnership have been designated as the lead university for the U.S. Agency for International Development's Fish Innovation Laboratory in their Feed the Future program. We simply would not have been able to have won that competition if it had not been for our FAO partnership. Today, Phou and MSU have signed a new memorandum of understanding. How is this new agreement refocusing the partnership? Well there are so many global challenges that we face and it's going to require new and innovative partnerships if we are to find solutions to some of the biggest challenges that we face. In the arena that Mississippi State is partnering with right now for example anti-mocrobial resistance and biosecurity in an aquatic environment have posed some very serious threats globally. And we are going to be focusing our efforts jointly in being able to address that with research but more importantly with education and with technology development and outreach efforts to be able to be sure that we are doing the very best job that we can possibly do to be able to address this challenge. And that's just one of many examples that we plan to focus on as we think about the four betters that are the hallmark of FAO's strategic plan. Mississippi State University is looking at ways that we can find an even stronger relationship to partnership with. You talked about employing accelerators to drive this partnership. Would you tell us how MSU is a driver of innovation, technology, data and compliments and why these are essential to achieving the SDGs and FAO's vision of the four betters? Well we live in a time that experience great challenges but also great opportunities if we take advantage of some of the things that are available to us today. We live in a world in which the digital revolution has happened. Data are collected everywhere but at the same time if we're not able to convert data into information and therefore feed into good decision making then we simply have data. And so the partnership that we're now establishing and expanding with FAO allows us to bring expertise not only in production but also much broader expertise in areas such as data science and data analytics the ability to be able to understand the compliments of governments and institutions and human capital to be able to fully capitalize on the information that is being generated at an incredibly rapid rate. So again the idea of using accelerators of data technology innovation must come with compliments if we are truly to see an acceleration of solution development. In your view what does it mean to MSU to partner with FAO? Each one of our institutions in MSU and FAO are internationally recognized in their own right but I always like to look at it as there is a true synergy in the relationship that we've established. You can think of it as 1 plus 1 does not equal 2 but 1 plus 1 equals 100. The ability to really synergize and take advantage of the compliments that we bring together can truly bring innovation to some of the global problems that we're facing and bring solutions to those problems that simply could not have happened without partnerships like this one. And finally any final thoughts? Well today marks yet another hallmark in the relationship that we have established with FAO. The signing of a new memorandum of agreement between our two institutions is something that is very gratifying to see since I was able to actually be a part of the one that was established in 2010 to be here today and be a part of the signing ceremony is incredibly important for MSU State University. I think what we are looking forward to is the continued expansion of this partnership as we think about our designation as a reference center for aquatic health and aquatic biosecurity. We're seeing so many opportunities that continue to open up on the horizon and MSU and myself specifically are just incredibly proud to be able to partner with an organization that has such a stellar international reputation.