deforstation, school nutrition, improved food products for families, and efforts to literally transformood and agriculture in africa. there was a time a few decades ago when we celebrated the insights of a scientist who had invented new wheat seed varieties and in doing so, coupled that invention with his persistence to end hunger and we awarded him the nobel peace prize for that effort. tonight's award is not the nobel peace prize, but in many ways, paul poleman reminds me of what i have learned and when i had the chance to meet the doctor, someone who has tremendous vision and intellect and respected for his leadership in a hard-nosed corporate environment, and someone who miraculously gets up every day, commits his personal time and energy, and somehow manages to bring 20, 30, 40 other ceos along with him every time he launches a new effort to make the world a better place and to imagine an environment when the kids don't go to bed hungry every night. for that, i'm deeply honored to introduce my friend paul poleman and to present him with the atlantic council's distinguished business