Richard Kouyoumdjian Inglis

Richard Kouyoumdjian Inglis is a former Chilean naval officer. He commanded the LCU 'Fueguina', specialised in gunnery and missiles, and was the gunnery officer of both a Leander class frigate and a County Class Destroyer. In 1992, he was posted to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) as a naval observer for a 9-month tour.

After his time with the Chilean Navy and following completion of his studies for an MBA, he spent the next 20 years as a Citibanker and as senior executive of local Chilean banks. He was subsequently the Group CEO of Indumotora, a Chilean automotive group, and the executive director and board member of Drake Enterprises AG. He is currently the Vice Chairman of AthenaLab, a Chilean think tank dedicated to international relations, security and defence, a member of the council of the Municipality of Las Condes in Chile, and a board member and consultant.

He holds an MA in War Studies from King´s College London, and his main interests are in the fields of national security and defence.

Richard is a regular columnist on defence, national security and international relations in Chilean media, and has also published in the USNI Proceedings, The Naval Review, the Australian Naval Institute, the Chilean Revista de Marina. His War Studies dissertation was published by the Corbett Centre as the Corbett Paper No. 20.