 Hello, my name is Adelito Square. I work at the School of Financial Management of SOAS University of London, where I'm convener of the MSc programs in Public Policy Management, Public Financial Management, and I'm also convener of the summer school in Public Financial Management. The summer school course on Public Financial Management has been designed with the idea to bring in a concise way some of the most interesting topics in our master's courses. So we have issues of where does the government take the money from for finding the operations, the decisions which are made for finding public policies and programs, then how can the government be held accountable, how do they report to the public, and what's the role of auditors in ensuring that public money is properly spent. So we compress all these topics within a three-week course and we aim to provide the participants some insights into this important function for the working of the government. This program on Public Financial Management is different from other similar courses that you can see around. But first it's a course about public policies, how does the government make choices about funding programs and spending public money. But it's not really a course about accounting or public finance. The key concern for us is the decisions which are made from the side of public authorities. So it's more a course about political science, if you like, or generally policy sciences. In addition to these, we do not have any particular regional focus. So we may look at countries from the developed world, from Western countries, Europe and North America, but we also place attention to emergent and developing countries, with the idea that some countries can learn from others' experiences, with the idea also that the local institutions and culture and history and traditions are also quite important in seeing how the government makes use of financial resources. So the course is about lectures, but it is also pretty much about classes or tutorials. So students will have the opportunity to interact in small groups with their teachers and with other coursemates and to discuss specific case studies. We also typically, every year, bring about some new topics which are around. So, for instance, what we plan to do this year is to have a look at the rise of cryptocurrencies and some attention from the side of some central banks to use central bank controlled and issued cryptocurrency and especially what does this mean in terms of public finances. So, I hope to welcome any of you to come and study here at SOAS and London more generally. London, as you know, is an international capital of the world and so here you can have the opportunity to interact with the people coming from all over the places. This can be the case especially of SOAS University of London because we have a huge variety of students coming from different regions in the world with different backgrounds and so typically there is plenty of opportunity to learn from each other's experience.