 My name is James Panaretto, so I was a 2015 New Colombo Plan Scholar and I studied in Singapore and China and now I'm a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. I was awarded the 2015 New Colombo Plan Scholarship while I was a student at UWA studying the Bachelor of Philosophy in Economics. It enabled me to travel to Singapore and China where I completed part of my university degree and then completed an internship while I was in Singapore. The strong industry connections and personal connections that I made during the New Colombo Plan Scholarship really enabled me to land a career in management consulting that's both complex and really rewarding in terms of personal development. By gaining an immersion to the Indo-Pacific while we're undergraduates, it really enables us to go into industry feeling confident that we can engage on a cultural level. In my career, having that deeper knowledge of the culture and economics of the region has actually really helped me to be able to provide that deeper level of insight to clients on the changes that are happening and how they affect their business. I can't see where I'll be in the next five to ten years, whether it be management consulting venture capital or public policy in the Asia-Pacific, but one way or another, we are going to be heavily influenced by the Asia-Pacific and the New Colombo Plan has really equipped me to be able to embrace that.