I hope this is the way I want to make my life beautiful. I hope this is the way I want to make my life beautiful. Astronomy is a very exciting science. It asks some of the biggest questions that mankind can ask, such as what is our place in the universe? Are we alone? And these are also questions that astronomy cannot just solve by itself. We have to reach out to other disciplines like chemistry, biology, geology, mathematics, informatics. They're all part of solving these biggest questions that mankind has. IAU additionally started with these ten years to open its activities or the education and outreach. We'll have very soon a fourth office dedicated to the teaching. The IAU in the first place is about bringing astronomers worldwide together to discuss and stimulate science. But the IAU is so much more than that. It's really the face of astronomy to the outside world. The governing structure of the International Astronomical Union is an example in democracy and efficiency. The officers are elected for three years and the Assistant General Secretary and the President-elect will serve for three years before becoming President and General Secretary. And this rotation of three years allows us to promote participation by the entire community and also to take into consideration geographical distribution and gender distribution. IAU symposia really helped people to get together and communicate and form collaboration and learn all the new things other people are doing. And for this particular meeting, I was very happy to see this actual set from India and they have this ultraviolet camera. They got some data which I was very interested in. I didn't know about the satellite until I came to this meeting. The International Schools for young Astronomers are a program of Lui AI created in 1967. They address students with a master in astrophysics or, well, as in the early stages. These schools have been working for each year and lasts three weeks. They start building their scientific collaboration network in an international context that will help them to sit their work independently of all borders and all political barriers, thanks to an astronaut's passion. Astronomy for development is an initiative by the International Astronomical Union to try to find how astronomy impacts on society. How do you use this field to make the world a better place? So amongst the projects that we've supported around the world, there's been a range of activities from using astronomy to stimulate interest in maths and science at school level, using astronomy to stimulate research and undergraduate education at university level. We've also used astronomy to engage with the public on scientific method on thinking. The work that we do in the office of Astronomy for development, we are transforming a lot of knowledge because it's a lot of knowledge. We are very competitive. We are transforming it into wisdom that we can use for human development. There is clearly no gain this knowledge because we have seen thousands of us arriving in the North Area non- collegial forces intuitive which are our own reason and we should only live happily and we can live a weiter and fly at Kodik and all, and I actually saw the skies full of stars and it was a wow. So then I decided to actually go into some amateur clubs and see the sky, and I actually started with small telescopes, I'm watching the Abhila and the open clusters, and that is what actually brought me into astronomy. The International Astronomical Union is considering the visibility of the nice sky, a cultural value of all civilization since the dawn of humanity, and therefore it's very active to protect this value for the future generations. The artificial light is making him possible to see the stars during the night, but they are measured that can mitigate this pollution, either by eliminating the unnecessary artificial lighting or to create auses for the visibility of the night. The very important role that astronomy is fulfilling is that it's a driver for technological development. It's an exciting time in astrophysics because over the next decade, international consortia are embarking on building the next generation of large telescopes, the extremely large telescope, the giant Magellan Telescope, and the 30-meter telescope project. These new large ground-based, optical telescopes could represent the real breakthrough in our understanding of the universe from the first galaxies to the formation of stars and planets. But they represent challenges as well because telescopes of that size really require a new way of thinking both in how the telescopes are constructed, the companies and the people involved in such large constructions, and then the technology you have to use to, in fact, provide the high-quality imaging that we expect out of such large telescopes. One of the main issues that we are currently facing is understanding what we are doing, the surface of asteroids, comets, fundamental questions in the measure of what we are doing, we can view and also see the circumstances that have brought to their constitution. In South Africa, there's a lot of exciting, interesting developments going on. The world's largest radio telescope, and it will be based mainly in the northern Cape, and those radio telescopes will be the most powerful telescope we've ever ever seen. We have no idea what we will discover. Not only that, the technological developments that we have to make in order to do this SKA project means that things like data science and big data and computational astrophysics is going to grow quite a lot. We are now discovering thousands of planets around stars. Our stars are just a normal star, and we are just a normal planet. I think it makes you realise that really our commonality, our humanity is actually much, much greater than any little differences that we have between us. I think one of the biggest challenges that the IAEU will have in the future is in order to convince society and also the policymakers of the importance of astronomy, and especially that this is a long-term endeavor, and not the short-term gains that most of the politicians are used to.