Gordon Walker is David B. Miller Professor of Business and Chairman of the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He received his BA from Yale University and an MBA and PhD from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Walker has previously taught at the Sloan School, MIT; at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; and at Yale University. The author of numerous articles, he is on the editorial board of Strategic Organization. He has received several grants from the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Walker has consulted and performed contract research for a number of organizations, including Chaparral Steel, Sprint, Xerox, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, Carlson Restaurants, Texas Instruments, The Associates, Halliburton, UICI, United HealthCare, and EDS, as well as numerous smaller firms. His executive training programs include senior management seminars at Southern Methodist University, the Wharton School, Yale University, and INSEAD. He was named among the best business policy teachers in the United States in 1994 and 1998 by BusinessWeek magazine and received the President's University Teaching Award in 1999 at SMU. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. He serves on the board of directors of Alico, Inc. (NASDAQ), where he chairs the Strategic Planning and the Nominating and Governance Committees.

Professor Walker was an infantry officer in the Marine Corps from 1967 to 1970 and was awarded the Bronze Star.