Both the Director and Associate Director of the Manila SDG event, Cecile Guidote Álvarez (also Founder and President Emeritus of the Philippine Centre of ITI), and Viktor Sebek, Co-President of the Colombian Center of ITI, respectively, have a strong connections with ITI It is for this reason that they give particularly warm welcome to the message by Mr. Tobias Biancone, Director General of ITI, to the Manila SDG event as one of iits nstitutional sponsors.