Pearson plc (PSON) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

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Good morning everyone and welcome to Pearson's 2024 four-year results. Today we will host a presentation followed by a Q&A session. There will be three ways to submit your questions. For those of you who have joined us in person and wish to ask a question, please raise your hand at the end of the presentation. For those of you who've joined us virtually and would like to ask your question personally, please use the numbers that are displayed on screen. These lines will open following the main presentation. Alternatively, please type your questions into the questions tab at the top right of the screen in the event platform, and we will address them in turn at the end. And with that, I'll hand over to Omar. Thank you, Alex. Good morning and welcome to all of you. Thank you for joining us today. As well as hearing from Sally and me, we're also joined by our colleagues, Art, Tom, Vishal, Tony and Sharon for Q&A. Many of you will recognize Sharon from the Assessments and Qualifications Investor Seminar that we held back in November 2023. Let me formally introduce her to all of you. Sharon has held many leadership roles over her successful Pearson career and is currently MD of our US Student Assessments in UK and International Qualifications businesses. She has a track record of strong results delivery. I'm pleased to announce that Sharon will become our new President of English Language Learning, effective next month. This means that Gio Giovanelli has decided to leave Pearson. Gio has contributed so much to Pearson over the last 12 years. Grazie Gio. And he's been instrumental in driving the strong revenue and profit growth of our English language learning business. I'd like to thank him for his big contribution and wish him all the best for the next endeavor. He'll cont...