Major General William J. Walker, USA (Ret.)

MG Walker is the Chief Security Officer for Allied Universal®, a leading security services company with 800,000 employees in ninety countries. He is also a Senior Advisor with The Chertoff Group; a member of the SIMS’ Software Advisory Board and the Project Recover Advisory Council which repatriates missing U.S. Service Members. Prior to his position with Allied Universal®, MG Walker was unanimously elected to serve as the 38th Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. House of Representatives, 117th Congress. Previously he served by Presidential appointment as the 23rd Commanding General, District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG), the Nation’s only National Guard that reports to the President of the United States through the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Army.

During his 39-year career, MG Walker led at every level and held two general officer commands. As the Commanding General, he was responsible for the sustainable readiness of Army and Air Force units for combat. He also directed military support to civil authorities for multiple high visibility National Special Security Events in the District of Columbia. Internationally, MG Walker oversaw the military-to-military partnerships the DCNG enjoys with the Armed Forces of Burkina Faso in West Africa, and the Jamaica Defence Force in the West Indies under the Department of Defense, State Partnership Program. In this capacity, he supported both U.S. Ambassadors, and Commanders of U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Southern Command.

Prior to serving full-time in the National Guard, MG Walker enjoyed a 30-year parallel career with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as a Special Agent where he held national, diplomatic, senior liaison and joint duty assignments culminating as a Senior Executive Service member. While assigned to DEA New York, he increased foreign liaison and traveled to China, Columbia, Hong Kong, and Thailand to collaborate with counterparts on targets of mutual interests. He also served two foreign tours as a Narcotics Attaché and helped strengthen the narcotics control capabilities of the host countries. Special Agent Walker served at the White House, Office of National Drug Control Policy, and at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence where he was appointed a Senior Intelligence Officer. He retired from DEA as a Deputy Assistant Administrator.

MG Walker was educated at the University of Illinois at Chicago (BA), Chicago State University (MS), National Intelligence University (MS), and American University (MA). He completed graduate certificate programs at Harvard, George Washington and Syracuse Universities and the Naval Post Graduate School, Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Executive Leaders Program. He is a graduate of the Inter-American Defense War College, the Joint and Combined War Fighting School and the Defense Security Cooperation, Senior Executive Course. MG Walker is a MIT, Seminar XXI, International Relations and National Security Fellow and a National Academy of Public Administration Fellow. He is a member of the Economic Club of the District of Columbia, and the Council on Foreign Relations.