Happy Restoration Day, Timor-Leste!
Today, it is exactly four years since the United Nations handed over the full government of Timor-Leste to the Timorese people. By a somewhat amazing coincidence, it was also today that I met with Lady Patricia Mirrlees, wife of the Nobel laureate who was in Helsinki to receive a Doctor Honoris Causa title from the Helsinki School of Economics yesterday. It turned out that Lady Mirrlees, a great friend of Timor, had been in Dili just a couple of weeks ago. We had a long discussion especially about the importance of education in building a new country with a majority of the population being youth, along with many other things. The occasion made me feel very proud of having been contributing, with whatever tiny input, to the future of the world's newest nation. My best wishes to the people of Timor-Leste!
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