Richard is currently a member of the CGIAR Audit, Finance & Risk Committee (AFRC) of the Integrated Partnership Board (IPB-AFRC) from November 2024. This appointment follows on from his term as a member of the OneCGIAR AFRC since June 2021.
He currently also serves on the Board of the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) since February 2024 and is the Chair of its AFRC as well as a member of its Programme Committee.
He previously served on the Board of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) from 2015 – 2022 and was the Chair of its Finance Committee as well as a member of its Programme Committee and Audit & Risk Committee.
He has dual Swiss and British nationality and is based near Geneva, Switzerland. He is an independent management consultant providing governance and risk management advisory and facilitation services to multilateral and other international organizations. He speaks English and French.
A Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy (FCPFA), Richard worked for 25 years (1987 – 2012) at PwC as a management consultant, based in London, Geneva and New York culminating in being appointed as PwC’s Global Relationship Partner from 2005-2012 for the United Nations System, The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis & Malaria and other multilateral organizations.
Also, during 2017 – 2021, Richard was Finance Director at The New Humanitarian, the world’s leading humanitarian not-for-profit news service, reporting from the frontlines of conflicts and natural disasters in some 70 countries to drive more effective prevention and responses to crises.
From 2016 – 2020, Richard was also an independent expert advisor to the Board and Finance & Accountability Committee of Unitaid, Geneva – an international organization for innovative funding and investment in projects to prevent, diagnose and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
He also serves as Chair of the British Swiss Chamber of Commerce (Geneva Chapter) and as a member of the BSCC Governing Council.