Thank you for the kind introduction. Thanks to the organizers and to those who have traveled from near and far to exchange ideas at this conference. It’s always a pleasure to see the depth of expertise and the breadth of interest in competition policy gathered in one place, and I am looking forward to hearing the debate. Of course, much like debate in general, debate about competition policy takes courage. As my grandmother liked to say, debate requires us to take a step back and recognize that God gave us two ears and one mouth for a reason. I wish us all the courage to listen to one another, because as C.S. Lewis wrote in the Screwtape Letters, “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the first of every virtue at the testing point.”
