Richard M. Walker is the Lee Shau Kee Foundation Chair Professor of Public Administration, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Head of the Department of Government and International Affairs, Director of the Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study, Director of theInstitute of Policy Studies, and Director of the Governance and Bureaucracy Lab at Lingnan University. He is also an elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.

Professor Walker is a scholar of public administration with a focus on citizen-government relationships and the effective management of government. To address these issues, he draws on lab and survey experimental methods, integration studies, and computational social science. Professor Walker serves as Associate Editor of Public Management Review and is or has been a member of the editorial boards of journals including Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration, Policy and Society, and Public Administration Review. His research has been supported by grants from the Chiang Ching-kou Foundation (Taiwan, China), the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), Research Grants Council (Hong Kong, China), Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (Hong Kong, China),and National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has received the 2014 Kooiman Award for Best Paper in Public Management Review, 2015 Radin Award for Best Paper in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2019 Louis Brownlow Award inPublic Administration Review, and 2025 H. George Frederickson Award for Career Contributions to Public Management Research from the Public Management Research Association.