dan markey, a minute -- a friend of many years in the academic world. he is now with the council on foreign relations here in washington and is engaged in many aspects of policy and analysis in southeast asia. -- south asia. without further ado, ambassador blake. >> thank you very much, dr. lao. is a pleasure for me to be here today to chair today's panel on domestic foreign policy debates. -- in india. i want to commend dr. lao for organizing this. i think it is a terrific opportunity to have a very important discussion. it is always a treat for me to get out of the bureaucratic trenches of the state department and come and listen to some of the real experts on a lot of these issues. it is a particular street to be with some quite distinguished academics here. i will introduce them in a moment, as well as my old cannot -- co-conspirator, dan markey, who was in policy planning for several years and we worked together closely. as someone who has been working on india off and on since about 2003 when i was the duffey -- deputy chief of mission in india in