Martin Walker is Senior Director of the Global Business Policy Council, a private think-tank for CEOs of major corporations, based in Washington DC.

He is an author and historian, a Senior Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC; a Senior Fellow of the World Policy Institute at the New School University in New York; and a Director of Global Panel, an international policy advisory body.

He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the New Yorker, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, The National Interest, The American Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, Die Zeit of Germany, El Mundo of Spain, the Moscow Times and Moskovskii Novosti.

He is also a regular broadcaster on the BBC, National Public Radio and CNN, and guest panelist on ’Inside Washington’ for CBS-TV, ‘The McLaughlin Show’ for NBC-TV and ‘White House Chronicle’ on the Public Broadcasting Network.

He and his wife Julia Watson, the novelist and food writer, have two grown daughters and a basset hound and they divide their time between Washington DC and the Perigord region of France.