Prior to joining KIMEP in 2022, was a consultant in the area of international academic affiliations. In addition to recent dean positions in Cambodia and Vietnam, he was head of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) branch campus in Singapore for three years and served as Vice President and General Counsel of UNLV for seven years before that.
Richard was with the Office of the Attorney General, State of Nevada for nearly a decade, where he served in a number of positions, including Assistant Solicitor General and Chief Deputy Attorney General in charge of the Las Vegas office. The Dean began his legal career in the U.S. state of Hawai’i, where he was a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Honolulu and then in private practice as a criminal defense trial and appellate lawyer.