Vishnu Prakash, India's High Commissioner to Canada, will share thoughts on the rise of secular and pluralistic India, the nation’s outlook, economic heft, soft-power, as well as, political and security challenges. He will also discuss growing India-Canada engagement and the road ahead.
David A. Welch, CIGI Senior Fellow and Chair of Global Security at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, will serve as a discussant for this presentation.
Event Speakers
Margaret Walton-Roberts
Margaret Walton-Roberts is a professor at WLU and associate Dean of the School of International Policy and Governance at the BSIA. She is a human geographer with research interests in gender and the international migration of health care professionals in the context of India. Her latest co-edited book The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept is published by University of Pennsylvania Press.
David A. Welch
David A. Welch is a CIGI senior fellow and professor of political science at the University of Waterloo. An award-winning author and scholar, David is an expert in foreign policy decision making and international security, with an emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region.