About Walker
Walker Wright is the incoming 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. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at Brigham Young University-Idaho, where he teaches online courses in international business.
Walker’s writing spans economics, politics, and religion, with academic work appearing in peer-reviewed journals such as Economic Affairs, Faith & Economics, BYU Studies, and others. His popular writing has been featured in Law & Liberty, Econlib, Human Progress, and Deseret News. His first book, In Trade We Trust: How Commerce Makes Us More Social, is 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.