Dr. Christopher Richard

Christopher is a systems thinker specializing in the intersection of sustainability, climate change, data science and technology. Experienced in applied policy analysis, strategic operations management, and techno-economic models and simulation, he holds a PhD (Energy and Environmental Policy) and an MBA (Economics) from the University of Delaware and a BS in Anthropology from Kansas State University. Christopher is an LM Associate Fellow and Technical Lead for Lockheed Martin’s Sustainability Integration and Analytics team.

Core to his role, Christopher is principally responsible for leading Climate Intelligence and research, Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Accounting, and is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) practitioner - active in life cycle thinking and applied product/chemical stewardship.

Christopher represents Lockheed Martin as an Organizational Board Member of the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA), and is a member of its Industry Committee, Co-Chair of GHG/LCA Working Group, Co-Chair of the Outreach Committee, and the former Chair of the Strategy Working Group.