Walter Douglas

Walter Douglas is a senior visiting fellow from the Department of State. He joined CSIS in November 2011 and is working on issues related to South Asia, the Middle East, and public diplomacy. Until October, he was responsible for all public communications at the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. Before that, he served in Washington as executive assistant to the under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs and as director of the Office of Press and Public Diplomacy in the Near Eastern Affairs Bureau. This followed a tour as public affairs officer at the U.S. embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Douglas also served as a public affairs officer at U.S. diplomatic missions in Turkey, Cyprus, and Iceland. He was deputy to the spokesman at the U.S. mission to the United Nations when Madeleine Albright was ambassador. Earlier, he served at the U.S. missions in South Korea and Cote d’Ivoire. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he worked as an advertising executive in New York and as a legislative assistant to a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Douglas graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in history in 1977.