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Richard Wilcox

Richard Wilcox (born 13 May 1967 in Würzburg, Germany) is a German and United States diplomat and public finance expert. He serves as the Director of Private Partnerships for the United Nations World Food Programme.

In December 2024, in his current capacity with WFP, he took part in high-level briefings on global humanitarian crises with the US Administration, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, as well as the Dutch Government and Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Reinette Klever.

As a WFP Director, Wilcox also supported the Italian government’s ‘Food for Gaza’ initiative and discussed humanitarian efforts with Italian Vice Prime Minister Antonio Tajani, as featured by [https://www.lapresse.it/esteri/2024/06/03/video-food-for-gaza-parte-il-primo-carico-di-aiuti/ Italian TV outlets]. Preceding this role, he was UN Special Advisor and Director of the UN Task Force on Russian Trade Facilitation as part of the UN’s Black Sea Grain Initiative which he conceived and helped negotiate in 2022.

Prior to that, he was the Director-General of the African Union’s African Risk Capacity from 2013-2015 at the level of Assistant Secretary General and as Special Advisor on Humanitarian Finance to the United Nations World Food Programme. In 2019, he established the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue cyber conflict mediation practice in Geneva. In 2017, Richard Wilcox co-founded—and is acting president of—Digital Equity, a Swiss association supporting state and non-state actors with their digital transformation whilst controlling the risks of data misuse and privacy encroachment. Provided by Wikipedia