Richard Downie

Richard Downie is deputy director and fellow with the CSIS Africa program. He joined CSIS following a decade-long career in journalism. He was a reporter for several newspapers in the United Kingdom before joining the BBC, where he worked as a senior broadcast journalist covering the leading international stories of the day for radio. Since then, he has conducted research and completed writing projects on Africa for the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He is a contributor to the Africa section of Freedom House’s annual report, Freedom In the World. Downie holds a master’s degree in international public policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in modern history from Oxford University.