Josh Richards

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About Josh Richards

JD MBA | Board Member | Emerging Technologies Richards is an American attorney and tech strategist, currently leading North American operations for Pacific Peering, a French telecom company that is laying the world’s first climate sensors connected to deep-ocean subsea data cables. He serves on a number of Boards and Commissions for the United Nations, leading universities, and nonprofits. Throughout his career, he has served in policy and legal offices at the Pentagon, DHS, DOJ, and the U.S. House of Representatives. Within the private sector, he has advised boards of directors, and served in strategy and leadership positions with nonprofit organizations, as well as multinational corporations, where his portfolio has included strategy consulting for NGOs, intergovernmental organizations, Treasury, State, IC, Big Tech, and banking & telecom Fortune 100s. He speaks on emerging technologies and their applications to environmental research. He has delivered speeches and panel remarks for academic, corporate, diplomatic, and government events on topics including: corporate responsibility, sustainable development, economic competitiveness, emerging technologies, environmental technologies, and international relations. Born in France to American linguists, Richards grew up living in six different countries across four continents, including seven years in central Africa, and has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia as both a private citizen and as a member of official STRATEGY: Developed an operational strategy for Google Fiber to address anticipated regulatory changes emerging from Congress TECHNOLOGY: Managed design and development of a global knowledge management system for the U.S. Army to streamline worldwide bilateral and multilateral security cooperation data RISK MANAGEMENT: Conducted privacy impact assessments on PII data for a national membership organization, and developed risk management solutions to protect data privacy GOVERNANCE: Oversaw activities of an educational nonprofit's Board of Directors, providing counsel on bylaw regulations and managing all governance for the full Board, consisting of corporate CEOs and notable public figures COMMUNICATIONS: Led executive task force workshop to develop a communications strategy covering video and print for a 650K person agency • Experienced Board Member & Advisor • Background in International affairs and foreign policy • Specialized in emerging technologies • JD/MBA with studies in Asia, Europe, and the U.S.