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Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Richard provides editorial direction across ELDR's intelligence output. His coverage focus spans cross-jurisdiction governance, regulatory architecture, and the intersection of African market reality with Western institutional systems. Twenty years of advisory work across financial services, federal institutions, enterprise technology, and multinational compliance environments inform the methodology applied across the firm's products.
ELDR is actively building out a named analyst desk across coverage areas. Profiles publish here as senior analysts join. To engage on contributor and fellowship opportunities, see Careers.
Upstream allocation, downstream economics, energy transition, sectoral regulation across West and Southern Africa.
Open Position →Coalition mechanics, electoral cycles, succession dynamics, post-election scenarios across ECOWAS and East Africa.
Open Position →Sovereign credit, Eurobond markets, FX dynamics, central-bank policy, restructuring trajectories across coverage jurisdictions.
Open Position →EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, sectoral AI obligations, cross-border data, sovereign-cloud frameworks across U.S., EU, and African jurisdictions.
Open Position →Ports, rail, energy grids, telecoms infrastructure, public-private frameworks, sovereign-guarantee economics, dispute mechanisms.
Open Position →Research Fellows contribute time-bounded analysis to ELDR products while maintaining their primary institutional affiliation. Inaugural cohort opening Q3 2026.
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