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Born in Santa Monica, California, Mr. Walker joined the Nevada Museum of Art as CEO in 2007. In addition to establishing a vision and strategic plan for the Museum, he launched its internationally recognized Institute for Art + Environment, significantly increased the operating budget, institutional endowment, permanent collections, and expanded the current facility that includes the Nightingale Sky Room, Stacie Mathewson Sky Plaza, and Charles and Stacie Mathewson Education + Research Center. He also led the effort to produce Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains public art installation in Las Vegas. Previously, he served 11 years as the Dean of Public Programs at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he created the School of Public Programs and provided the leadership for a new 100,000 square-foot South Campus. During this time, he founded The Design High School, a public charter school in the Los Angeles Unified School Disctrict that employed design-based learning across the curriculum. He also served as director and founding partner of the Walker and Walker Gallery in Santa Monica, and worked five years as an associate with McBain, Rose Partners, a private equity firm in Downtown Los Angeles that specialized in leveraged buyouts. He was publisher of Element magazine, a widely distributed arts quarterly, and in the 1980s and 90s formed two original bands that inked deals with Warner Brothers Music and Chrysalis Music. He attended the M.F.A. program at the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, and received a bachelor’s degree from California State Polytechnic, Humboldt. He is a founding member of the Burning Man board of directors, and currently serves on the board of Oscar Tuazon’s Cedar Spring Water School in Eastern Nevada. He is a member of the American Association of Museum Directors (AAMD).