Julian Walker
Julian Walker is a former British diplomat.[1]
Walker first arrived in Sharjah as a junior British official in late 1953, and in the following year became Assistant Political Officer in Dubai. He was political agent in Dubai in 1971, at the time of the formation of the United Arab Emirates.[2]
He later served as ambassador to Yemen, and then Qatar. He worked on the Iraq-Kuwait border question following the 1991 Gulf War.[3]
He retired in 1993, having served in postings including the Trucial States, Oman, Baghdad, Morocco, Berlin, Northern Ireland and Lebanon, the Yemen and Qatar.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
Qualcomm
Walker was on the board of Qualcomm, a consortium which bid for a mobile phone contract in the US during the occupation:
- Another member of the Qualcomm consortium board who had ties to Shaw was Julian Walker, a former British ambassador to Qatar who had also been a liaison to the Iraqi resistance to Saddam Hussein. Shaw hired Walker as a contract investigator to look into the illegal arms trade in Iraq, a position that had him working out of Shaw's office in the Pentagon. In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Shaw dismissed claims that such mixing of friendship and business was improper.[4]
External Resources
- LevelBusiness MR JULIAN FORTAY WALKER CMG MBE
- Jen Gerson, UAE birth overcame friction and disputes, The National, 26 November 2008.
Notes
- ↑ Visit of Mr Julian Walker (Tuesday 11th March), The Petroleum Institute, accessed 21 October 2011.
- ↑ Visit of Mr Julian Walker (Tuesday 11th March), The Petroleum Institute, accessed 21 October 2011.
- ↑ Visit of Mr Julian Walker (Tuesday 11th March), The Petroleum Institute, accessed 21 October 2011.
- ↑ Michael Scherer, Crossing the Lines, Mother Jones, September/October 2004.
