 Pacific Forum focuses on creating better understanding of why Asia is important for Americans and why America is still committed to peace and security in Asia. We try to build bridges among countries and among people, both among senior people and more importantly among the next generation. Pacific Forum produces three different publications. The first is Comparative Connections, which is a journal of bilateral relationships around the Asia Pacific. Second, we produce pacnet newsletters, which are op-ed pieces that we run at least once a week. We use those as a way to have commentary on the current news events that are occurring around the region. And third, we produce issues and insights, which are lengthier articles about events in the region. I would think about Pacific Forum programming in two ways. One of them is the obvious, and those are the conferences that we run that keep us on the road almost constantly. As part of those discussions, there is the ongoing meetings and distillation of the insights from those larger efforts that we pass on to decision-making here in Washington, in Tokyo, in Seoul, in Beijing. A constant process of term whereby we share our insights, they trade us their own thoughts, and we constantly try to hone, refine, and update our thinking and our interpretation of events. Our genuine contribution and where our real legacy lies is in our efforts, I think, to engage the next generation of decision-makers, policymakers, and analysts in this region and beyond. It is the Young Leaders Program and the Fellows that I think will truly be remembered as the legacy and the most outstanding and important contribution of the last ten years, the Ralph Koss era at Pacific Forum. When the Young Leaders Program started in 2004, we had less than 50 Young Leaders. Now we have over 360 from 26 different countries. For Young Leaders who want to pursue a fellowship with the Pacific Forum, we have five fellowships. The Vacey Fellowship, established in honor of Pacific Forum founder and former president, Admiral Lloyd Vacey, provides young Asian scholars with the opportunity to work at the Pacific Forum as a junior researcher for three to six months. The Sasakawa Peace Foundation Fellowship sponsors American and Japanese fellows who focus on the U.S.-Japan Alliance, while the WSD-Honta Fellowship supports a broader base of fellows who are interested in European and East Asian security issues. Through the generous support of Ambassador Alfonso Yuchenco, a select group of young Filipina and Philippine Americans are able to routinely participate in the Young Leaders program. And finally, we have the Kelly Fellowship established through an anonymous and generous grant from a Korean American. This program recognizes the exemplary efforts of former Assistant Secretary of State and Pacific Forum President Emeritus James Kelly. Having the Kelly Fellows, we have some very able and well-selected young people who are able to dedicate their research efforts for a particular period of time towards working on problems within the U.S. and the Korean relationship. This is an events and current affairs-driven fellowship. It's characteristic of Pacific Forum being involved in here and now and not necessarily a historical analysis of things long ago. An extraordinarily important development at the Pacific Forum has been the creation and oversight, execution of the Council on Security Cooperation for the Asia Pacific, CSCAP. Through CSCAP and the leadership of CSCAP at the Pacific Forum, we have been able to be an important, in fact the most important, Track 2 institution in the Asia Pacific dealing with security and political events. Welcome to Las Vegas everyone. You may thank the United States State Department for your invitation to Sin City. For those of you that don't know, I mean it's very few of you, I'm Brad Glosserman I'm the Executive Director of the Pacific Forum CSIS. For those of you that don't know the Young Leaders program is to teach you as much as possible about the issues. We are hoping that you folks as Young Leaders actually have something to contribute to these discussions as well. Our objective is to get you to mingle both with the seniors. Don't think of yourself as second class citizens. Every opportunity you get, coffee breaks, meals, whatever. Ralph will encourage them and I encourage you, do not be shy. It's equally important that you mingle among yourselves. One of the most important and I think perhaps the most enduring legacy of this particular project is to build the community of next generation specialists. So it's important that you guys get to know each other, that you spend time together, that your interaction with each other go beyond merely that of the formal sessions and even the break. In our list would you be able to name three things that you've gained being a part of Pacific Forum's Young Leaders program? I think one of the most important parts of the Young Leaders program is being able to hang out with the senior participants. To meet the kind of thought leaders in this field, the highly experienced experienced professionals who are kind of forefront of these issues. By sitting in on these sort of meetings you get a sense of the complexities and the various dynamics and the difficulties of finding consensus in such a large group. But you also see the importance of it. The interaction with some of the senior people here, I thought it was a real privilege to interact with Jeffrey Lewis. I read his blog quite often and I never imagined that I would have a chance to meet with him. The network among the Young Leaders themselves and also the network between the Young Leaders and the experts in this area and we can see a lot of wide range participants in the CSCAP meeting and this is very good. I made lots of friends here and I expanded my network, my professional network. If I'm doing research about any of these topics I have people who I know I can go to I hopefully in the future these will be the movers and shakers and we'll have the relationships already established so it'll be easier going forward hopefully to generate consensus on policy views. Going to the CSCAP meeting has been really beneficial. I mean not only am I given the opportunity to meet senior experts, I'm also given the opportunity to meet senior experts that were once Young Leaders and you know it's really nice to be able to talk to somebody that was once in my position and it's really nice also knowing that you know at some point I too will be there at as well. Many of our Young Leaders from five, six years ago are now starting to move into positions of responsibility. I would expect five years from now there will be more of them in those positions and we'll be able to hold dialogues to help them do their jobs and to help their countries move closer to cooperating with one another. My name is Lyndon Burford. I'm here representing CSCAP New Zealand. My name is David Santoro. Right now I'm working for the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. My specialisation is US from policy, Vietnam-US relations. Probably one of the first key advantages is simply networking with a fantastic bunch of people. It gets you involved into the policy world and into how policy making processes actually work. So I've learnt a lot on that which you're not really exposed to in your academic work. It really has been an opportunity to get so much good critical feedback on my own ideas to encounter new ideas. Most of my work is linked to the Young Leaders programme. With the expertise I developed I think I'm being more useful and I think more visible to some policy makers who work on these issues in my countries. Pacific Forum does a lot of good things. It gets a lot of return for its investment. I find it hard to think of anything better than the Young Leaders. Bring the new generation to people who are going to control the future of Asia-US relations. Bring them together. Let them develop ideas together. Let them become friends. Let them, when they later become in positions of influence, be able to pick up the phone and suddenly know who to call and be listened to with credibility. That's a terrific investment. Before closing I would like to thank all of the donors and supporters of the Pacific Forum today and back over the years because I think you're getting a very excellent return on your investment. Thank you very much for coming and for your support to the Pacific Forum. Mahalo. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to everyone and we certainly appreciate your long-term support for the programmes and look forward to working with you in the future. Thank you very much. Thanks. Really thank you. Thank you. Thank you. There are a lot of people to thank with respect to the Pacific Forum, CSIS, and the things that it has accomplished over the years and no one more than Admiral Joe Vasey. I also want to thank the donor who has brought to the Pacific Forum, the Kelly Fellows. This is a program that fits so well with what I have been dedicated myself over the years. I was honoured that my name was going to be associated with this in some way. It is certainly something in which I deeply believe and I'm very happy to support the idea of the Kelly Fellows and this has been reinforced by the quality of the individuals who have been selected for that position over the years.