R Keith Walton

Keith Walton is currently the Vice President, Government Affairs for Alcoa Inc. (the third largest aluminum manufacturer worldwide.) He was formerly a Principal and Chief Administrative Officer at Global Infrastructure Partners. Prior to that, he spent over ten years as executive vice president and secretary of Columbia University, working closely with the president of the university formulating and implementing university-wide policies and managing strategic projects. From 1994 to 1996, Keith worked at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as deputy chief of staff and chief of staff to the Undersecretary of Enforcement, the Treasury’s chief law enforcement official, and assisted the Undersecretary in supervising the U.S. Secret Service; U.S. Customs Service; ATF; IRS-Criminal Investigative Division; the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; and the Office of Foreign Assets Control. While at the Treasury, Keith also served as deputy director of the White House Security Review. He began his career at the Atlanta law firm of King & Spalding. Keith serves on the boards of the Apollo Theatre Foundation, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and The Trinity School, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also is a member of the American Law Institute, the Council for the U.S. and Italy, and the Foreign Policy Association. He earned a BA, from Yale, and a JD from the Harvard Law School. Keith and his wife Aubria and their three children make their home in Washington DC. He is a member of the 2005 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.