Richard Marney
Consultant Risk Officer
Richard Marney is a Consultant Risk Officer at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF).
Over a career spanning four decades, Richard has held senior management-level business development and fundraising, and executive management-level risk management and operating positions focused on Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) in commercial and investment banking, micro-finance, impact investment asset management, and private equity working in globally recognized financial services organizations, including BNY-Mellon, JP Morgan, and ResponsAbility Investments. Additionally, Richard has extensive experience on company boards of directors, and investment and advisory committees across a broad range of sectors and regions, and has lectured in international and development economics at the graduate university level. Along with Timothy Stubbs, he has published Corporate Debt Restructuring in Emerging Markets: A Practical Post-Pandemic Guide (2021) and Debt Restructuring in Emerging Markets: Effectively Navigating Local Institutional Frameworks (2024), with the third volume in this series planned for publication in 2027, and with Philipp Webber an upcoming volume, The Emerging Market Investor’s Guide to Country Risk: Systematic Risks and their Threat to Investment Performance (2026) through Palgrave Macmillan.
Richard is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and University College London.