Richard Lennane is the Executive Director of the Geneva Disarmament Platform. He is a former United Nations disarmament official and Australian diplomat.

Richard has worked in the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs from 2001-2013, and was head of the Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit from its creation in 2007. From 2014 to 2016 he headed the provocative and controversial nuclear disarmament NGO ‘Wildfire’.