ATTORNEY, SCHOLAR, DIPLOMAT & STABILIZATION ADVISER
Areas of interest/expertise include:
- Governance in post- & current-conflict areas;
- Legal, institutional and judicial strengthening;
- Legal systems of the Arab and Muslim world;
- Anti-corruption and AML/CFT strategies;
- Civil and criminal international asset recovery;
- International financing agreements;
- Dispute resolution & conflict mitigation.
Field experience includes: Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, & Yemen.
Phillip James Walker, Esq., is an attorney, scholar, legal & political affairs consultant, and former U.S. diplomat. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from Cornell Law School, cum laude, with a specialization in international legal affairs. His consulting work focuses primarily on rule of law, economic governance, anti-corruption and dispute resolution. He has been a member of the bar since 1998. He is a member of the panels for arbitration and conciliation at the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a member of the World Bank Group.
Among his current activities, Phil is is a research affiliate and thesis adviser at the Harvard Center for Middle East Studies.
Recently, Phil served as Senior Justice Adviser to a major U.S. & European effort to support justice and police services in rebel-held parts of Syria. His special focus was on re-establishment of and support for civil registry services in Idlib and Aleppo Provinces. He also participated as a subject matter expert at UN-sponsored consultations on Syrian transition. Prior to this, he had been Senior Legal Adviser to the Afghan Ministry of Finance 2010-2014, where he had been intimately involved in that State’s most critical decisions in the area of economic and fiscal policy. These included participating in the resolution of Kabul Bank and the renegotiation of Afghanistan’s IMF agreement. Over the course of his career, Phil has worked or consulted in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Israel/Palestine,Iraq, Lebanon, Macedonia, Tunisia and Kuwait, among other places.
Before establishing his private legal and consulting practice, Phil served as a U.S. diplomat in Cairo, Egypt. Elsewhere in the region, he served at U.S. Embassy Riyadh during Operation Desert Shield/Storm, and U.S. Embassies in Tunisia and Kuwait. Phil trained at the U.S. Department of State language institute, and speaks Arabic fluently.
Phil was born in New Hampshire in 1962, and lives there with his wife and children in their 1783 farmhouse.
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PHILLIP JAMES WALKER, ESQ.
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phil@phillipjameswalker.com