Richard is a co-founder and managing director of SECURUS Strategic Trade Solutions, LLC. He specializes in foreign trade legal and regulatory development and export control. His regions of focus are Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Richard has worked with governments in Kazakhstan, Kosovo, the Kyrgyz Republic, Malaysia, and other countries to draft foreign trade licensing, enforcement, and awareness-raising statutes, regulations, and procedures.

He has consulted with governments and businesses in over 80 countries on trade regulation, customs control, border security, and government-industry cooperation. He also has provided training to officials in dozens of countries on how to enforce and promote compliance with trade regulations.

Richard has consulted with multinational enterprises in the chemicals, defense, telecommunications, automotive, industrial equipment, and other industries. His work includes conducting audits of internal compliance programs for major multinational corporations, helping them to develop internal compliance policies, procedures, and transactional screening mechanisms, and advising companies on export control and sanctions compliance.

Richard has worked in international trade and security for 20 years. He served as a senior fellow with the Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft at the University at Albany, State University of New York, an associate with the Center for International Trade and Security at the University of Georgia, and a researcher with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is published in WorldECR, the International Export Control Observer, and the Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management.

Richard has a master’s degree from the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia and a bachelor’s degree from Midwestern State University in Texas.