A dedicated professional with more than 24 years of experience managing agriculture, food security, and livelihoods programmes funded by a number of donors including: USAID Title II programmes, Bureau for Humanitarian Affairs (BHA) and the Annual Programme Statements (APS), OFDA emergency agricultural/WASH interventions, DFID livelihoods programmes, EC food security, ECHO emergency agricultural programmes, AusAID, IFAD, the World Bank inputs programme, DANIDA seeds programme, FAO funded agriculture programmes and UNOCHA emergency and recovery projects. Involved in disaster risk reduction programmes promoting community resilience among disaster prone areas, several years of experience working with and managing partners in consortiums. Experienced in working in different contexts including the fragile ones like Afghanistan. 

Richard holds a National Diploma and a Degree in in Agriculture. He holds a Master’s Degree in Leadership and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Business Administration. Richard is married and has one adult son and a teenage boy. The family worships at the Evangelical Lutheran Church.