Richard is a Canadian of British origin, who worked full time with MRA/IofC for fifty years. His first encounter with MRA was a visit to Caux in 1959 at the age of 17 with his parents and older siblings, Mary Joy and Alan. From 1966 he took part in the creation and tours of It’s Our Country, Jack! and Anything to Declare?, playing clarinet and sax in the band, and writing several songs.
Richard, and his wife Rosalind, have lived in Canada since their wedding in Ireland in 1973. His twin commitments have been to the governance of IofC and to its Agenda for Reconciliation program, which took him to Rwanda, Myanmar and South Sudan. In 1990, he co-founded the NGO, Canadian Friends of Burma.
Richard initiated and co-convened, with Philippe Lasserre from France, annual meetings in Caux of MRA Boards’ Representatives, which continued through the ‘90s until the creation of IofC International, of which he was a Founding Member, serving on its first Executive.
