Richard is a seasoned environmental business professional experienced in all facets of environmental management, encompassing government regulatory functions, consulting, industrial operations, and international development. His focus on integrated waste management programming has been expanded by significant climate-change, emission reduction, and renewable energy project development and implementation.

Currently Richard is working to operationalize 2 renewable energy projects in Egypt, and a waste management project in Afghanistan. Richard’s multi-faceted professional career of almost 40-years includes the following major categories:

- 8-years focusing on emission-reduction and renewable-energy project development and implementation;

- 7-years with international development activities implementing various industrial and community-based cleaner-production initiatives;

- 7-years in the corporate sector managing the environmental liabilities and regulatory affairs of a multi-national waste management company with facilities across Canada, the USA and Europe,;

- 7-years in environmental consulting for resource developments and industrial operations providing strategic advice and technical support for environmental and stakeholder issues; and due-diligence assessments of industrial and commercial operations to support acquisition activities, and;

- 8-years in government, providing water resource sensitivity assessments to support protection requirements and, supervising the environmental impact assessment (EIA) investigations required for siting a provincial-scale integrated hazardous waste management system.