conversation on national defense to begin and we will be hearing from national defense secretary christine wormuth. >> the event will start in a few seconds, we will start the music. ♪ >> welcome, everyone. my name is michael anderson and i'm the board director here at the atlantic council. on behalf of the our center for strategy and security and for defense practice, i would like to welcome you to this exciting second installment of our 2022 series, a conversation with secretary christine wormuth on the

army, the honorable christine wormuth, to build on these previous discussions. there is no better leader today to discuss the role of the army on deterring actors across the globe. thank you again for spending time with us and we look forward to hearing your insights in the coming hour. with that it is my great pleasure to introduce jane, my colleague, who will make a couple of announcements and further introduce our esteemed guest. jane is also a board director and president and ceo in north america at a company that works on solutions to protect the integrity of products and documents. jane has held previous roles as deputy terry sector -- deputy secretary of the department of homeland security, assistant secretary-general of the united nations and member of the security council in the bush and clinton administrations. she has also had a distinguished career in the army pleading service in the gulf during desert storm and she deeply understands the importance of the topics we are discussing today. jane, thank you for joining us today. over to you. >> thank you