R. Barrie Walkley

R. Barrie Walkley
United States Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes and the Congo-Kinshasa
In office December 6, 2011 – July 18, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Succeeded by	Russ Feingold
United States Ambassador to South Sudan
Acting
In office July 9, 2011 – December 6, 2011
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Diplomatic relations established
Succeeded by	Susan D. Page
United States Ambassador to Gabon
In office November 12, 2004 – April 27, 2007
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Kenneth Price Moorfield
Succeeded by	Eunice Reddick
United States Ambassador to São Tomé and Príncipe
In office November 11, 2004 – April 27, 2007
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Kenneth Price Moorfield
Succeeded by	Eunice Reddick
United States Ambassador to Guinea
In office November 22, 2001 – February 10, 2004
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Joyce Ellen Leader
Succeeded by	Jackson McDonald
Personal details
Born	1944 (age 79–80)
Profession	Diplomat

R. Barrie Walkley (born 1944) is a career foreign service officer and the former Special Advisor to Secretary of State Clinton for the Great Lakes and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was appointed to this position in December 2011 and served until June 18, 2013, when he was replaced by former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold.

Previously, he served as the American ambassador to Gabon and later to concurrent appointments to Guinea and to Sao Tome and Principe. He was called back to service and appointed Chargé d'Affaires for South Sudan at its independence. (Susan D. Page later became the first ambassador.) He holds degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. He and his wife Annabelle were Peace Corps volunteers in Somalia (1967–1969).

Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs; Ret. General Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State; Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations; and R. Barrie Walkley inaugurating the new U.S. Embassy in Juba, South Sudan on Independence Day, July 9, 2011.