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India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, rode a wave of Hindu nationalism to a historic re-election in 2019. His first order of business was to revoke the special status granted to the Kashmir region, inflaming the rivalry between India and Pakistan. How will the Kashmir situation affect the region, both economically and politically?
Speaker Peter F. Kranstover spent close to 30 years serving the U.S. government as a Foreign Service officer with USAID in Washington, D.C., Latin America, Africa, and most recently, Pakistan. He is a Political Science graduate of Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass., and has graduate degrees in Economic Development and Agricultural Economics from Oxford University and the University of Wisconsin respectively. A Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala, he spent his junior year of undergraduate study at the Universidad de Madrid. He has served as an Adjunct Instructor on International Economic Issues in Marquette’s Economics Department, and is on Wisconsin’s Advisory Council to the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition of Washington, D.C. He also serves as a substitute teacher in his local school system. He and his wife Anne Lewandowski, who is an international development consultant, have raised three children and live in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. He speaks Spanish and has a working knowledge of Arabic.
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