Steven C. Walker has been serving as the United States Ambassador Chargé d’Affaires to Eritrea since December of 2019. He is a career member of the Department of State’s Senior Foreign Service and works at the U.S. Embassy in Asmara, Eritrea.
Previously, Ambassador Walker was a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Human Resources. His international assignments focused mainly on Africa and the Middle East. Walker has been working in the U.S. State Department since 1992, serving as a foreign service officer for nearly three decades.