Trustees should not be passengers, but willing and wishing to contribute. The doubts were not so much those of strategy because many parts of the initial strategy had been achieved in the last ten years. It was a question of how to develop next. From a regulatory role and facilitating networks, we need to move on to have a global identity and create value for members through business development which should be possible using the World Wide Web. We must avoid the danger of a Commonwealth predominance and preoccupation with matrices.
Some countries are in real trouble.
Nevertheless, there is a common core philosophy of standards to which we all wish to adhere, or we would not be here. As a result of growth, there is a wider range of needs in a more diversified variety of countries at very different points on the lifecycle. We should have a clear country wish list involving the executive director and president of each member institute. We should engage not such countries, but also firms. We should flexible in development and share more.