Richard is the founder and executive chairman of Oldfield Partners, a value-style asset management firm with over $4bn in assets under management.

Richard was Chairman of the Oxford University Investment Committee and of Oxford University Endowment Management Ltd from the latter’s inception in 2007 until 2014 and is a director of Witan Investment Trust plc and a trustee of Royal Marsden Cancer Charity and Canterbury Cathedral Trust.

Richard holds a BA Hons in History from Oxford University. His book about investing, ‘Simple but not easy’, was published in 2007.