Richard joined COIN full-time in August 2008 and will be coordinating the COIN training programmes. He hopes to see the delivery of courses move up a gear with more and bigger events and the courses being adapted to specific professions and other audiences.
Before working for COIN, Richard oversaw the documentation efforts of several large human rights projects in West Africa and Sri Lanka, using statistical methods to produce objective and undeniable evidence of human rights atrocities. This included work for Truth Commissions such as that in Sierra Leone, contributing to a history of the country's 10 year conflict. His interest in environmental issues is long-standing, beginning with involvement in green campaigning in the mid 90s.
Richard has been very active on climate issues, especially as volunteer coordinator of his local Friends of the Earth group, lobbying MPs and organising successful public events. Other interests include mountain biking so if you know of a decent sized hill near Oxford please get in touch...
