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“I had the privilege of participating in one of Dr. Safty's United Nations leadership programs in 1998, and so I am very aware of the high standards and quality of his work. For that reason. I gladly accepted when he asked me to come halfway across the world once more to talk about what it means to be a leader.

Leadership, my friends, is something, which has many definitions...leaders come in all shapes, sizes and colours, and with many different personalities, styles, and convictions. So how the we recognize a leader when we mett one? By the fruits of their labours. Just as the sweetness of the fruit indicates the health of the tree, the results produced indicate the quality of the leader. Judging by these standarts, I would say that Professor Adel Safty has provan himself time and time again to be both a philosopher and an achiever, a learner and an educator, a person of both flexibility and conviction in sum, an outstanding leader. For all of your achievements, Professor Safty, and especially for the opening of this promising instution, which we are here to inaugurate today, I heartly congratulate you.”

Dr. Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace - Laureate and former President of Costa Rica, speaking at the Second Global Leadership Forum on the occasion of the inauguration of the International Leadership Institue, June 2001.