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James H. Walter

James H. Walter
Spring 1991 Fellow
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
James H. Walter
Spring 1991 Fellow
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

 Walter is a Senior Vice President / Public Policy Issues Manager in the Corporate Affairs Department at Bank of America.  He provides strategic counsel and recommendations to senior management on company policies, positions and activities, and works closely with the government relations and media relations teams to anticipate and respond to inquiries from policymakers and the press.

…In college, I belonged to a community of arms control activists [who] relied on arms control organizations in Washington for information. Coming to Washington to contribute to the work being done on arms control was a dream for me…I arrived a few days after the start of the Gulf War and quickly began sorting out all of the information coming out of the Middle East and the Pentagon. [Later] my focus shifted to the big ticket items of the defense budget: the B-2 Bomber and Star Wars.