Joshua Z. Walker is the Director of Programs of the Congo Research Group at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC). He has been working in and researching the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 2004. Before joining CIC, he was a research associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research in Johannesburg, South Africa. He also worked for The Carter Center and the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping mission in the DRC.
His research on politics, economy, and culture in the DRC sits at the intersection of academic knowledge and policymaking. It has included work on extractive economies and their social effects, public culture, conflict, and politics.
He holds a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Chicago, a master’s degree in anthropology and development from the London School of Economics (LSE), and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from McGill University.