Walter Douglas is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy and for Regional and
Security Policy in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the
U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. In that position, he
oversees public diplomacy, political/military affairs, strategic
planning, assistance and other EAP priorities that cover the region.
Walter was previously the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
International Media Engagement in the Bureau of Public Affairs. Before
that, he served overseas as minister counselor for public affairs at the
U.S. embassy in New Delhi. Earlier, Walter was a senior visiting fellow
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in
Washington, D.C. His report “Engaging the Muslim World: Public Diplomacy
after 9/11 in the Arab Middle East, Afghanistan, and Pakistan” was
published in 2013.
Until October, 2011, Walter was based in
Islamabad as the director of communications for the U.S. mission in
Pakistan. Before that, he served in Washington as executive assistant to
the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and as the
director of the office of press and public diplomacy in the Near Eastern
Affairs bureau. This followed a tour as public affairs officer at the
U.S. embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Walter also served as a
public affairs officer at U.S. diplomatic missions in Turkey, Cyprus,
and Iceland. He was deputy to the spokesman at the U.S. mission to the
United Nations when Madeleine Albright was ambassador. Earlier, he
served at the U.S. missions in South Korea and Cote d’Ivoire.
Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Walter worked as an advertising
executive in New York and as a legislative assistant to a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives.
Walter graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in history in 1977.
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