 Welcome to our virtual open day. My name is Adam Habib and I am the Director of SOAS, University of London. It is really a great pleasure to welcome all of you at this event for today. You know, I joined SOAS about 12 months ago and the thing that I've most noticed about SOAS in the last 12 months is what a truly special place it is. It is, if you like, a global university in the heart of London. Now, I know many institutions say they are global institutions, but this is truly one. Our mandate is Africa, Asia and the Middle East. These are not simply areas of study for us, but they are the philosophical lens through which we understand the planetary questions of our time, questions like inequality, questions like pandemic or climate change, or human identity, or social and political polarization. What is also worth bearing in mind is that our campus in Bloomsbury comprises the people of the world. Our students come from 130 countries. We really, in many ways, represent the collective of the human community, and we are proud of that. We are proud of the fact that we both reflect the collective of the human community, and that our focus, our subject, our purpose is to understand that global community. But we are also committed to other goals like social justice, anti-racism. Anti-racism. These are, if you like, the fundamental challenges of our time, and if we don't address these values, if we don't practice these values, we can't cohere as a human community. And so we teach this. This is really, truly infused in our course curriculum in the very way we teach and in our day-to-day interactions. So all of this, our international profile, our commitments to social justice, our commitments to anti-racism, all of these values are the very core of what we have been and what we will continue to be. And so in a sense, we not only have had a history of inclusion, a history of internationalism, a history of social justice, but we're also beginning to push the boundaries so that we reinvent and disrupt higher education in a positive sense so that we reimagine higher education for the 21st century. So once again, let me welcome you to our virtual open day. Let me hope that you will be bold. Let me hope that you will ask hard questions. My colleagues are very open to it, so as is a place for difficult debate. Yes, we demand that that debate is conducted with dignity and with respect, but we will ask the difficult questions of our time. And this is why so many of our graduates go on to serve in international NGOs, in international organizations like the UN, etc. Because they develop the skill sets. They are able to ask the difficult questions that represent the collective human community itself. So welcome again to this virtual open day. I wish you a great day of deliberation and I look forward to seeing you in the months and years ahead in the corridors of service.