Alan R. Walker
Alan R. Walker was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 2019. At the time of his call he was age 48. He has served in the Church as a Gospel Doctrine teacher, counselor in a bishopric, bishop, counselor in the Argentina Buenos Aires North Mission presidency, high councilor, counselor in a stake presidency, and ward mission leader. He presided over the México Monterrey East Mission and was an Area Seventy in the México Area. He also served as a full-time missionary in the Tennessee Nashville Mission.
He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on January 2, 1971, and was reared in Argentina, Mexico, and Boston, Massachusetts. After his mission to Tennessee, he returned home to Argentina to help his father recover from a serious accident. While there, he met and married his wife Marcela Sulé. They are the parents of one daughter. Immediately after their wedding they moved to Provo, Utah, where Walker completed his bachelor’s degree in economics at Brigham Young University. He worked for three years as a corporate banker with Citibank, six years as a controller for the Church in the South America South Area, eleven years in the Mexico Area, and also worked as director for temporal affairs for the South America South Area.
