Richard has over 30 years of delivering management solutions (16 in high-risk areas) to complex challenges in Africa, Middle East, Europe and South Asia. He is a subject matter expert on providing operational risk management and security technical support for commercial, governmental implementers partners and INGOs in an international context. Extensive experience in contractual audit ISO 9001 and compliancy; developing and implementing plans, policies and procedures; training and capacity building and advising on business continuity and crisis management to ensure organisational resilience. During his career he has been instrumental in managing contracts which include: contractual audit and compliancy, physical audit, quantitative risk assessments, gap analysis, threat identification & intelligence analysis, business continuity protocols and critical incident & crisis management
Richard has a Degree in Security & Risk Management and a master’s in Terrorism Studies.