Good evening...A very warm welcome to everyone.

It is a great pleasure to welcome you here on behalf of the master program at Uni of

A 그다음에 and to한 the event of the graduation ceremony and the Honorary ceremony of the

academic year of 2019, 2020.

We are here in the old university library building.

Old means it was built in 1913.

And we can see in the room some sort of pictures and memories

of actually the founding generation.

We see Margaret Willem, Friedrich here,

who was the first founder, the first name for the university.

But I actually always think that the real founder

is Margaret Willemine, his wife who's there,

because I think she's there because she is the box person.

He was riding on a horse, and she was very much the arts,

the cultural, and the science person.

And the founding stone of the library of the university

was actually her library as well.

So this is why we create a different setting

than we sometimes are.

Especially, I would like to very warmly welcome our guest

speaker, former UN High Commissioner Dr. Navi Pillai,

who is here with us already for the second time.

Dr. Pillai was UN High Commissioner

for Human Rights in 2008 to 2014.

And among the many activities after leaving their office

is that she is a member of the advisory board

of the International Nürnberg Principals Academy.

We are very happy that we continue our close collaboration

with the academy in this regard.

And Navi Pillai will be introduced more properly

and thoroughly by Christopher Saffoling in just a moment.

Before we listen to Dr. Pillai, let

me just say a few words about the master program,

and then also award our graduation diplomas

to some of our recent graduates, at least those who are here

today.

The master program started in the wintertime of 2014, 2015.

So it's already the sixth year.

And we have, again, a great new group of students this year

from diverse professional and academic backgrounds,

coming, in fact, from all five continents this year.

We welcome students from Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil,

Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, Lebanon, Hong Kong,

India, Singapore, Turkey, and the United States.

So we're very proud and very privileged to welcome them here

at FAU.

The program has grown consistently.

We have now more than 100 students,

taking all the six years together, from 49 countries.

And that, of course, is by itself already a special treat