About Walker
Walker Wright is the Director of Programs at the Buckley Institute at Yale University. Before joining Buckley, he was the manager of Academic Programs at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a program manager for Academic & Student Programs with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Prior to that, he spent a decade in logistics, working in both operations and linehaul management.
Walker’s writing spans economics, politics, and religion, with academic work appearing in journals such as Economic Affairs, Faith & Economics, BYU Studies, and others, as well as in edited volumes with academic and policy presses. His popular writing has appeared in Law & Liberty, Econlib, Human Progress, and Deseret News. He is the author of In Trade We Trust: How Commerce Makes Us More Social, under contract with Bloomsbury Academic.
Walker holds an MA in government from Johns Hopkins University, an MBA in strategic management, and a BBA in organizational behavior & human resource management from the University of North Texas.