 I had the great honor and the great privilege to be the first supervisor from the FBI to come in 2010 and 11 to start a fully robust CBRN program. And by that we mean all modalities, Chem, Bio, Rad, and Nuke, and each of those modalities would have a dedicated intelligence prevention program and operations capability. However, the work on that to bring an FBI senior manager over to start such a program began years earlier. And on the Interpol side, the instrumental people were John Abbott and the Secretary General at the time, Ron Noble. And on the FBI side, there were several important parties to include Supervisory Special Agent Jeff Muller, our assistant director at the time, Vahid Majidi, and then two analysts, Gretchen Lorenzi and Rob Scripp. Interpol, prior to the FBI's commitment of a senior manager, Interpol had a very nascent bio-prevention program up and running. And that was initially funded by the Sloan Foundation in New York and the United States. And Project Geiger, which has become the core of Interpol's police intelligence mechanism for the Rad, Nuke terrorism prevention unit as it exists today, that was initially funded by the Department of Energy and the FBI took that over in 2010, the funding part. But the Department of Energy is a key partner in this. All those efforts came together very nicely in the late 2000s and we were able to develop the relationship to the point where the FBI could commit some resources and actually start those complete, full programs incorporating the work that had already been done. I'd like to say two things about this conference. When we first started, it was quite an anglophone effort. Most of the people coming and most of our experts were from English-speaking countries. And we thought about that a lot and tried to think about different types of outreach. And here at this conference, I can see firsthand the fruition of those efforts where the Francophone countries are very well represented, both presenting, both France and other countries presenting and in the audience. And it is just tremendous to hear questions in different languages. I think that this conference is showing us that among the member service police organizations there is an appetite for this type of expertise at Interpol. The countries are hungry not just to take the expertise but to contribute to it as best they can with whatever their programs can bring. And this particular conference is reaching a level of expertise that I find really quite impressive. Considering we've only really, we only kicked off in 2010, here it is the very beginning of 2016 and we're discussing very sophisticated ideas and getting a lot of interaction from the audience. And we're also not afraid to delve into the complete spectrum of this type of case work. Sophisticated operations, the legal issues, consequence management issues. I believe that this conference is showing how the CBRNE sub-directorate is supporting the complete police mission for the member service police organizations. There is no one police agency in the world that can afford to develop the expertise to handle all aspects of these cases. And remember the major goal here is prevention. Once we have dissemination it's too late and the price tag both in human life and in mitigation goes way, way up. It is our obligation to look at prevention and develop those techniques. And for me a career police officer with legal academic credentials to understand nuclear physics, chemical engineering, and the biological organisms that present the highest level of danger to humans. It's not quite realistic. I would spend my entire adult life being educated. So the partnerships to go out to the academic world, the regulatory world, the emergency preparedness world to handle the unfortunate eventuality if there is a dissemination. We all must meet together regularly, not just in radiological and nuclear but in biological and chemical areas as well. And Interpol is leading the charge there. This directorate has just done tremendous work not just mobilizing nation state programs but inviting our international organization colleagues to get together and to really robustly expand that partnership issue. Without them we don't stand a chance of preventing these disseminations.