Martin Walker (reporter)

For the director of Hull City football club, see Martin Walker.

Martin Walker is the Senior Director of the Global Business Policy Council (GBPC).^[1] He has been a part of the GBPC since 1997 and was appointed as the Senior Director on January 25, 2007

Life

He was educated at Harrow County School for Boys and Balliol College, Oxford. Walker lives in Europe with his wife with whom he has two daughters.^[2]

Walker is also Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of United Press International. While at UPI he was also an international correspondent.

Before joining UPI in 2000 he spent 25 years at The Guardian newspaper working in a variety of positions including bureau chief in Moscow and the United States, European editor and assistant editor.^[3]

He also holds a variety of other positions including being a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research in New York, and a contributing editor of the Los Angeles Times's Opinion section and of Europe magazine. Walker also is a regular commentator on CNN, Inside Washington, and NPR.^[2]

Works

Walker has written several books including Waking Giant: Gorbachev and Perestroika, The Cold War: A History, Clinton: The President They Deserve and America Reborn.

He is also the author of the 'Bruno' detective series set in the Périgord region of France, where Walker has a holiday home. It is based on an unconventional village policeman, Benoit 'Bruno' Courreges, a gourmet cook and former soldier who was wounded on a peacekeeping mission in the Balkans, who never carries his official gun and has "long since lost the key to his handcuffs." The first, Bruno, Chief of Police, has been published in the UK (Quercus), Canada (HarperCollins), the USA (Knopf) and translated. The second in the series, The Dark Vineyard was published in July 2009. The third, 'The Black Diamond,' was published in July 2010. The fourth, 'The Crowded Grave,' is to be released in Europe on September 29, 2011.^[4]

The website www.brunochiefofpolice.com is devoted to the Bruno novels.

References

1. ^ "Martin Walker Appointed Head of A.T. Kearney's Global Business Policy Council". A.T. Kearney. 2007-01-25. http://www.atkearney.com/index.php/News-media/martin-walker-appointed-head-of-global-business-policy-council.html?q=martin+walker. Retrieved 2011-09-16. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Martin Walker". Random House, Inc.. http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=32299&view=full_sptlght. Retrieved 2008-10-05. 
3. ^ "Biography of Martin Walker". The Globalist. http://www.theglobalist.com/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=3. Retrieved 2008-10-05. 
4. ^ "The Crowded Grave". Amazon UK. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crowded-Grave-Courr%C3%A8ges-Investigation-Police/dp/1849163219/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316114013&sr=8-1. Retrieved 2011-09-15. 

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