Simon Edward John Walker CBE (born 28 May 1953)[1] is Chairman of the Trade Remedies Authority, and business adviser and consultant to a number of companies.

[3] In 1961 he moved to the UK and attended Highgate Junior School,[4] moving back to South Africa in 1964 to live in Cape Town and attend South African College High School there,[5] followed by a return to the UK to study at Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and was elected President of the Oxford Union in 1974.

During this time he presented current affairs programme Tonight, on which he interviewed Prime Minister Rob Muldoon, about his assertions regarding the Soviet naval presence in the Pacific, and New Zealand vulnerability to Russian nuclear attack.

Walker moved to Europe in the late 1980s, working for public relations firm, Hill & Knowlton in London and Brussels, and becoming a partner in Brunswick Group in 1994.

[9] In January 2015, Allister Heath of The Daily Telegraph wrote "the Institute of Directors, under the superb leadership of Simon Walker continues to think the unthinkable".

In November 2014 he led a campaign against an attempt by BG Group to pay incoming CEO Helge Lund a £25m golden hello, describing the plan as "excessive and inflammatory".

While in South Africa, Walker joined the liberal anti-apartheid Progressive Party as a teenager and campaigned against racial segregation in the country.