I appreciate your being here today. Conducting what's essentially a job interview after the fact and in public is probably an awkward situation. We appreciate your putting yourself through that.
Obviously, we've heard your qualifications. I think I would be able to speak for everyone in this room when I say we are quite impressed with your background and experience you have.
One thing I always find helpful in assessing someone is what they would do in certain situations. I like to put people through scenarios or situations, and ask what they would do. Given the fact that this process is already well under way, there is going to be some element where I can't really ask you what would or should you do. It's going to be what have you done because it's already well under way.
There are a couple of different aspects of the job that I see as quite important and that I'd like to get an assessment of your thoughts on. The first one is that we have two stages to this process. There's this first stage, a transitional process I guess we're calling it, and then there's going to be a transition into a permanent process.
When there are enhancements being made, which is what's been indicated on the Democratic Institutions website, to that process when it becomes permanent I would assume that in your role on the board you will have some opportunity to make recommendations or suggestions about what those enhancements would be.
I wonder if you could give some indication as to what are some of the flaws or challenges that you've seen in the process you've been undertaking up to this point, and what you think would be good changes to be made to that process going forward. It helps us to assess your ability to make those kinds of suggestions and recommendations.