Josh 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 delegations.