Ron Walker was recently named President of the Richard Nixon Foundation and Library in Yorba Linda California.

 

Previously Mr. Walker was Managing Director of Korn/Ferry International’s Washington, D.C. office and Head of the Global Hospitality Practice. He was also responsible for conducting board and senior level executive search assignments in the firm’s General Practice. Mr. Walker has a wide-ranging background in business as well as association/not-for-profit, government service, international consulting and leisure/recreational management.

 

Mr. Walker has managed numerous CEO, COO and other senior executive searches in various industries, including government and quasi-government, hospitality and leisure, consumer products, energy, high technology, finance and not-for-profit/associations. Mr. Walker’s extensive and distinguished record of government service includes Special Assistant to the President of the United States from 1969 to 1972 and Director of the National Park Service from 1972 to 1975. While on leave of absence from Korn/Ferry, Mr. Walker served as Convention Manager for the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas and, then, at the request of the President of the United States, as Chairman of the 50^th American Presidential Inaugural. From 1977 until 1979, Mr. Walker was President of his own management consulting firm in Dallas. From 1975 to 1977, he was Associate Director of World Championship Tennis. Prior to this assignment, he consulted with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on its establishment of a national park system. Mr. Walker joined Korn/Ferry in 1979 as Vice President of the hospitality/leisure specialty division located in Dallas. He established the firm’s Washington, D.C. office in 1981.

 

Mr. Walker serves as Public Sector Member of the U.S. Olympic Committee and as Vice Chairman of the Bicentennial of the Constitution; is on the Executive Committee of the NCAA Foundation; and is Chairman of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge.