Richard Davis is the CEO and Managing Director of ARTIS Research & Risk Modeling. ARTIS is a scientific research company that engages in field research to understand international conflict, terrorism, terror networks, decision making, pathways to violence, resource conflict, sacred values and employs sophisticated risk modeling techniques to better define threats to national and international security.

Richard is also President of Davis Energy. Davis Energy is a research and consulting firm that develops public and private partnerships within the energy industry to advance technology in alternative fuels and renewable energies, promote loan syndication of alternative fuels projects, improve power generation sustainability and efficiencies, and develop public policy focused on decreasing the nation’s dependence upon foreign sources of petroleum.

Richard currently has appointments at think-tanks, research institutes, and universities, including Senior Energy Advisor at RTI International; Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University; Senior Associate for the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress; Member, Biofuels Task Force of the World Energy Council; Research Fellow at John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Associate Member of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists; and Trustee for Hope International University.

Prior to his current service, Richard served President George W. Bush at The White House as the Director of (terrorism) Prevention Policy for the Homeland Security Council.

Prior to The White House, he served as the Director of the Task Force to Prevent the Entry of Weapons of Mass Effect and the Director of the Academe, Policy and Research Senior Advisory Committee for Secretaries Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff at the United States Department of Homeland Security.

Earlier in his professional career, Richard was a history teacher, an assistant principal and the Chancellor of a private school system. During those years, Richard also led a non-profit organization dedicated to leadership training for youth.

Richard performed this non-profit work through educational development efforts in the United States, the Caribbean, Russia and Central Asia. The violent nature of some of the communities required him to develop conflict mitigation strategies to keep young men focused on building opportunities rather than destroying them.

Richard has an M.P.A. from Harvard University; an M.A. from the Naval War College; and an M.A. from Azusa Pacific University. He holds two Baccalaureate Degrees from Hope International University.
Richard and Heather are Arizona natives and currently reside in Phoenix.