 in food production last year, the world for the policymakers. And of course, we are also experiencing, as it was already the case last year, deep changes in the way industrialized countries are producing and consuming. There is this trend towards more natural, more local, more vegetable food in the West. At the same time, developing countries are also continuing increasing their consumption, their demand, and their wish to move towards developed countries food consumption standards. And on top of those areas, we have this continued renewal in technologies, in the way food is produced, but also delivered, marketed, consumed, etc., which changes the global landscape. We have also, and that would be the last point that I'm going to highlight as an introduction, this threat around climate and this big question whether food is an ally, and agriculture is going to be an ally of climate, or is there going to be a lasting contradiction between producing food and fighting against climate change. So we have a great group here tonight to address those issues. I'm very happy that Mr. Colin could join us again as far as I'm concerned. The second year, I have the pleasure to interact with him to discuss those issues. Mr. Colin is the chief economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization. He has a very broad and long lasting experience in economics, in development, in agriculture. Mr. Maximot O'Colin has also worked at the World Bank Group. He has been the executive director for several Latin American countries, but he has also led the Division of Markets, Trade and Institutions at IFRI, a well-known institute here. So Mr. O'Colin, you will start this panel by introducing us into the broad picture, and you will be followed by two people who will focus more specifically on areas that are of major importance for our discussion tonight. Mr. Kabel Abdallah, who is the managing director and CEO of Canal Sugar, and emirates an Egyptian multi-billion dollar agricultural industrial group, which is operating among others in Egypt, and which aims to ensure Egypt's self-sufficiency in sugar. So Mr. Kabel, for over 20 years you have led large regional companies in the Middle East, we've done around Mondays, and you will talk more particularly about the Middle East. Then we'll have the pleasure to turn to Mr. O'Colin, Sam O'Colin, who is the chairman and chief executive officer of LATC Group, which is a property investment firm in Nigeria, which invests in a variety of areas, sectors, including of course agriculture, which you are particularly familiar with, and you will provide us with a private sector vision of what is happening also in Southern Africa, as with your grounding in Nigeria, which as everybody knows is a critical country for agricultural production, and the largest African country, of course. And finally, we will turn to Mr. Park Yongjoo, who is coming from Korea, who is an executive vice president of Plant Farm, a leading indoor vertical farm company. You have Mr. Park 30 years of experiences in brand strategies, global marketing management, and product innovation, and with a strong sector-specific experience in agricultural production and food industries, which is going to be the issue you will address. You had served previously as the chief marketing officer of Koway, and as the vice president of global marketing at Samsung Electronics. The specifics of the issues that you will try to do us will be also to focus on technology and some dimensions, at least of technology, as our round table tries this year to take this angle to give a complementary vision compared to what we had discussed last year on those major changes.