Explorations Speaker Ambassador Howard K. Walker
Ambassador Howard K. Walker’s 33-year diplomatic career included missions in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He was Ambassador to three countries (Madagascar, Togo, and The Federal and Islamic Republic of Comoros) and Acting Ambassador in South Africa and in Tanzania. In Washington, he was Director of a State Department office that was responsible for formulating U.S. foreign policy in 17 countries. He led State Department teams to evaluate and improve the performance of American embassies and other State Department operations in France, Italy, Japan, Pakistan, Mexico, Hong Kong, Zambia, and Cuba. He was the State Department’s Senior Official (Vice President) of The National Defense University in Washington where he was responsible for ensuring that America’s future Generals and Admirals understand the diplomatic dimension of military actions. As Deputy Commandant of The NATO Defense College in Rome, he directed planning of the diplomatic-military curriculum for future military and civilian leaders of the American-European alliance. Following his diplomatic career, Ambassador Walker, who has a Ph. D in Government and Economics, has written about foreign policy matters for newspapers and journals. In retirement, he has taught on international relations and diplomacy at universities in Washington, Rome, Cape Town, and Stellenbosch. He and his wife, Terry, live in Chevy Chase, Maryland; Waterville Valley, New Hampshire; and Cape Town, South Africa.
fine south african wine tasting and lecture
At 2:00 pm in the Queen’s Lounge, join Jacques Vandewalle for a complimentary wine tasting; he has personally selected some of the best wines in South Africa, coming from ten different wineries. Today’s wine tasting will focus on white wines – from Sparkling to Noble Late Harvest. Mr. Vandewalle was born in 1956 to French speaking Belgian parents in the Belgian Congo and moved to Cape Town when he was 4 years old. He started in the wine business on the technical side some 30 years ago and is still with the same company, now called Distell – South Africa’s largest liquor producer and marketer. He now runs the Bergkelder Mountain Cellar in Stellenbosch, which also houses a unique wink bank called Vinoteque, where most of the wines being presented today have been drawn from this wine bank.
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