With that said, I hope to see as much as possible many of you students on Saturday optional session, otherwise, next Tuesday. Thank you very much. Good evening, and have a nice day.

Also, by email, I have announced that we’ve confirmed the date of the optional Session Four on Islamic finance and the perspective of Islam on future of capitalism, with these two excellent speakers as well. This will be, April 9, Saturday, at 2:00 PM, Central European Time.

If you are outside of Europe, your time difference between Europe and your time zone will change after the weekend. Please, be mindful with this change. After that time change next week, next Tuesday, we connect to Denmark, have discussion with these three guest speakers on business enterprise in realizing ...

If you are based in Europe, there is no change in the session time. If you are outside of Europe, meaning Asia or Americas or in Africa, depending on which side you are, please double-check the time difference between Europe and your time zone, and adjust the session time accordingly.

Please, try to join as much as possible to this session, although it’s optional. It will be hosted by our fellow Professor Henrietta from Lagos Business School. In this weekend, after the optional session on Saturday, Europe changes the time. They shift from wintertime to summertime.

Upcoming sessions, this Saturday, we have optional session connecting to Nigeria. We’ve got four wonderful speakers coming from Nigeria’s energy sector as well as fintech unicorn.

Thank you very much, Minister Tang and office for the arrangement. Thank you, Mina, for the facilitation. Let me stay through a few minutes to announce the next upcoming sessions. I’m aware of the time.

I think this is the first time you appear, and speak to the students, so maybe you can introduce yourself first, but let me give the floor to you, Mina.

Today’s facilitator is my colleague in this project organization, Dr. Mina Konishi, Chief of Staff, Shizenkan University. She’s also Japan representative of IISS, International Institute for Strategy Studies. She has been attending all sessions together with me, and worked on this organization last year and this year.

I see many observers. Kindly please mute yourself and turn off your camera. That would be very appreciated. Thank you very much, observers.

Let me briefly mention about the house rules. Participants, students, please include your school affiliation in your Zoom name so we can identify you are a student of this course. Please always turn on your camera, but mute yourself for the courtesy for speakers and colleagues.

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Future of Capitalism, Session Nine, Future of Democracy. We are in the middle of the second half of this course, and today is also an open session where each school has invited our broader community of each school.