A former Executive Director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy and a retired U.S. senior foreign service officer, Dr. Vivian S. Walker is Co-President of the Public Diplomacy Council of America, Practitioner in Residence and Professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Co-Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy, and Faculty Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy.