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Julia Luscombe

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the Colombian Cabinet, and to the forty-second session of the University of Pennsylvania Model United Nations Conference. My name is Julia Luscombe, and I will be chairing what I know will be an exciting, productive, and perhaps even entertaining committee. For a bit about me, I am a current junior in the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at Penn, I just wrapped up an incredible semester studying abroad in Senegal, and there is nothing I love better than a good debate, which is why I have been involved in Model UN since high school.

Colombia will be a fascinating topic for a crisis committee. While it is certainly a country that is known for violence resulting from a powerful drug trade and for having strained relations with its neighbours, Colombia is also one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America. It has become a destination for international investment, and it has benefited from a healthy relationship with the United States. Thus, Colombia has a great deal at stake as it attempts to regain and subsequently maintain its stability. I look forward to seeing this committee's creative and collaborative proposals for addressing Colombia's present concerns, as well as any other problematic situations that may arise during the course of committee.

Your Crisis Director, Vice Chair, Assistant Crisis Directors, and Committee Staff have all been working tirelessly to make this committee truly interesting and dynamic. Please do not hesitate to approach us with any questions or concerns about committee, or about the conference as a whole. We all look forward to welcoming you to Philadelphia!