Richard Safranek is a Senior Managing Director and Head of Executive, Advisory, & Research and serves on Wafra’s Management Committee. He is also on the board of directors for Wafra’s parent company. Mr. Safranek leads a team that provides innovative consulting, research, and portfolio solution services for pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and other institutional investors.

Previously, Mr. Safranek served as a Portfolio Manager at Wafra, which he joined in 1995. Prior to that, Mr. Safranek served as an Investment Analyst at World-Wide Investment Co., a Hong Kong-based family office. He has over 20 years of investing experience with publicly-traded securities.

Mr. Safranek earned a BA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from Columbia University. He completed a Chinese language program at Beijing Foreign Language Institute.