Ric Shreves
Director Emerging Technology | Mercy Corps
Ric Shreves is Mercy Corps’ Director of Emerging Technology. In that role, he explores new technologies and innovations for humanitarian aid and development. He also engages across the agency to facilitate the exploration of the potential of distributed ledgers and cryptocurrencies and is the author of two Mercy Corps white papers on blockchain technology. Ric represents Mercy Corps inside the Libra Association where he also sits on the Technical Steering Committee of that project. Prior to joining Mercy Corps, Ric worked for two decades as an IT consultant and author. He has authored over a dozen books on open source technologies. Ric is based in Portland, Oregon, where he moved in 2016 after living in Asia for twenty-one years.