Richard leads on the support contract to the Changing Futures programme, as well as having responsibility for external policy and external consultancy opportunities for MEAM.
Richard joined MEAM in 2019 and has worked in a variety of roles, including a two-year secondment at the UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. This has involved directly supporting work in programme areas, along with supporting colleagues on strategic and programmatic development, legislative analysis, cost-benefit/cost-avoidance and data-use analysis.
Previously, Richard worked at a youth homelessness and domestic abuse charity in Cardiff and a refugee and asylum seeker charity in Swansea; and a large international NGO working in Wales, as well as international experience in Türkiye.