Summer Walker is the Global Initiative’s Head of Security and Rights Initiatives. She leads projects and provides research and analysis on international policy, with a focus on peace, security and human rights issues. She works across multiple UN agendas, including as co-lead of GI-TOC’s delegation to and a chief analyst of the UN negotiations to elaborate a treaty on the criminal use of 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.