Richard Wheeler
Profile
Richard Wheeler is Managing Director of the Center for Energy Security Dialogue, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in California, USA. Previous to accepting his current role, Mr. Wheeler worked in Vienna, Austria as the senior energy security adviser for the OSCE, the world's largest regional intergovernmental security organization; before that he worked in the upstream oil and gas industry in both external relations and project management roles, spending several years in Russia and the Caspian region. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN), and has a Master's Degree from the Georgetown University's Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies. He speaks fluent Russian.