Richard has 10 years experience as an agricultural commodity analyst and is a specialist livestock analyst. Richard was Senior Economist at the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation (AMLC) before joining BankWest to lead its push into the eastern states agribusiness finance market. Richard has an honours degree in Agricultural Economics (UNE), Diploma in Applied Finance (SIA) and a MBA (UWA). Richard is a licensed futures adviser, offers risk management advisory services, runs risk management training services and contributes to the ProFarmer newsletter.