Professor Richard Budel is a professional with more than 25 years of experience in project management in the public sector, both on the business and client side. He is a specialist who, despite having specialized in the area of Medical Anthropology, has devoted most of his career to organizational management and guidance to large companies in the commercial and technological fields, always in the public sector.

His academic and professional career, as well as the results he has obtained in the long list of organizations with which he has collaborated, have endorsed him to occupy prestigious positions in entities such as IMB, Huawei, Sullivan & Stanley or Simplicities Ltd, where he has worked as CTO, mainly.

• Managing Director of Simplicities Ltd
• Director of the Public Sector Department at Sullivan & Stanley.
• Chairman of the Digital Government Advisory Board at Huawei
• Chief Technology Officer (CIO/CTO) at IBM and Huawei
• IT Director, Department of Citizen Safety and Justice, Government of Ontario. Canada
• Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Anthropology from Trent University.
• Thought leader and speaker at events in over 70 countries around the world
• Contributor to U4SSC, EIP-SCC, Smart Cities Council and other multinational organizations.