Welcome to the PANAMUN XXV Conference, for which I would like to offer you the warmest and most cordial welcome. My name is Stephanie Boyd and I am a senior in the International School of Panama. I am honored and extremely excited to serve as your chair in the United Nations Security Council for this Conference. I was born in Panama City and have studied most of my life in the International School of Panama, but my experience with Model United Nations started in Middle School, when I participated in PANAMUN XXI as an eighth-grader representing Barbados in the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. The following year, I had the opportunity to attend MUN NY to debate in the Third Committee of the General Assembly on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs representing the delegation of Oman. Since then, my passion for debate has only increased and I have continued to participate in school debates. At the end of tenth grade, I had the opportunity to assist the Isaac Rabin Conference in the Crisis Committee, and to the National Dialogue Summit where I debated at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. While last year, I was a Co-Chair for the first time, and moderated the World Trade Organization in PANAMUN XXIV. In these past few years that I have debated, not only have I gained a great deal of skills that benefit my debating techniques and identifying global issues, but they have also helped me grow as a delegate with such experiences. And with this, I want to encourage you to feel the satisfaction of growing as delegates at the PANAMUN XXV Conference, by representing your countries with great enthusiasm to have an active and productive debate. I wish you lots of luck, and an excellent conference!