Maureen Walker
Senior Advisor
National Coordination Office for Space-Based PNT
Ms. Maureen Walker serves as the Senior State Department Representative at the National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). Maureen is implementing an international approach on space-based PNT policy pursuant to the national policy. Ms. Walker provides the global perspective in interagency consultations on a comprehensive strategy to incorporate military and civilian requirements into the improvement of the U.S. GPS constellation. She is contributing to the extensive Five-Year Space-Based PNT Plan and U.S. outreach strategies for both international and domestic audiences. She also works with the U.S. private sector to identify key concerns and incorporate their views into ongoing U.S. Government processes.
Prior to this post, Ms. Walker served as the Senior Policy Adviser on Law of the Sea and Deputy Director, Office of Ocean Affairs, where she successfully achieved negotiation of the amending agreement on deep seabed mining to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1994). She received a Superior Honor Award for concluding the Code for the Regulation of Polymetallic Nodules (2001). She led the successful negotiations within the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on the Marine Action Plan as well as the Action Plan for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States.
Ms. Walker previously served as a Legislative Assistant to Representative Paul G. Rogers of Florida, handling ocean and fisheries affairs in the U.S. House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. She is a distinguished graduate of the National Defense University's Industrial College of the Armed Forces, has a law degree from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America, is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, and has a B.A. from Boston College.