Walker earned a
BA from
St. Francis Xavier University, and went on to earn a
Ph.D. from the
University of Western Ontario. He worked at the
Bank of Canada and the
Department of Finance Canada. He then taught at the
University of Western Ontario and
Carleton University. Under his leadership, a series of conferences were started in the mid-1980s to measure economic freedom and rank countries accordingly. A prominent spokesman in the media for
free market causes, he founded the Fraser Institute in 1974. He was its executive director until 2005, and remains a Senior Fellow. He considers himself a
libertarian. In 2010 he received an honorary doctorate degree from
Universidad Francisco Marroquín. ==References==