Lina Walker

Lina Walker is Senior Vice President of Global Thought Leadership at AARP, the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization in the United States dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. Dr. Walker heads three departments: AARP International, Brain Health, and Thought Leadership. She leads her team to influence U.S. and global leaders to catalyze change domestically and globally, to promote age-inclusive innovations, practices, and protections that enable older adults to thrive and contribute as they age.

Walker has deep and broad knowledge of aging issues. Prior to leading AARP’s Global Thought Leadership team, she spent over 20 years working on U.S. domestic policy to strengthen access to healthcare, long-term care, and financial security in academia, state government, congressional agency, and the non-profit sector. Her career includes working at the Brookings Institution, where she worked on private-sector solutions to promote retirement savings; at Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, where she worked on long-term care solutions; at the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, where she worked on Social Security and disability policy proposals; and for the Maryland General Assembly in the nonpartisan Office of Policy Analysis, where she evaluated state legislative proposals on taxes, health and long-term care.

Dr. Walker sits on the board of The Leapfrog Group, a non-profit, patient-safety and data transparency organization. She holds a master’s and doctorate degrees in economics from the University of Michigan. She is an avid gardener, and lives with her family in Washington D.C.

CONTACT

Email: lwalker@aarp.org

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