Helen Walters

And it's interesting too, I feel like sometimes people get mad at TED, mad at us because the TED talk doesn't necessarily encompass everything about a topic.

And I'm always just like, well, of course it doesn't.

It's just, it's like the start of a conversation.

And if you're interested, what an incredible opportunity for you now to go and learn more, to dive more deeply into these ideas, to find out other perspectives.

And so I think

I think our insights have a rhyming here, which is always gratifying.

Well, thank you very much.

We do too.

Okay.

So we canvassed our community to ask for questions for you.

And I think you already answered this one a little bit, but I think it's a pert question, which is, have you ever, or would you ever work for the US government?

I'm fascinated that you say that about the UN, given that the UN does not get such a great rap these days for its influence or for the way that it actually, for any effect that it has in the world.

So that's fascinating.

It's fine.

We don't want you to be the judge.

different, different conversation.

So one of the things that's always stood out to me when we've been talking is the way that you are able to be nonpartisan and basically give us the facts as you see them.

I guess again, you're digging into the actual data that are happening and reporting on that.

But it must

get to you, Ian, the person.