Summer Walker served as the Head of Security and Rights Initiatives for the Global Initiative until September 2025. At GI-TOC, she led projects and provided research and analysis on international policy, focusing on peace, security, and human rights issues. She worked across various UN agendas, including co-leading GI-TOC’s delegation and acting as the chief analyst during UN negotiations aimed at developing a treaty on the criminal use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). As an author, she has published numerous policy briefs and contributed to edited volumes. Her professional experience includes policy and strategic work with international NGOs, development agencies and research institutes. In the past, she worked at United Nations University, directing a drug policy project and contributing to the human trafficking in conflict agenda at the Security Council. Ms. Walker’s wider background is in human rights and development, and she explores the impacts of organized crime and associated responses in these areas. Ms. Walker holds an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from Colgate University. 

Ms. Walker’s wider background is in human rights and development, and she explores the impacts of organized crime and associated responses in these areas. Ms. Walker holds an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from Colgate University.