He conducted an apprenticeship as a pastry chef and trained in European Union and Swiss food law and cyber security.
From 2021 to 2025, he was the Free List's spokesman in the Landtag.
[1] Risch unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Schellenberg in 2023.
[5] Risch has been a prominent supporter of LGBTQ rights in Liechtenstein and was a supporter of the 2011 partnership act, which came into effect in 1 September.
[1][6] He was a founding member of the FLay - Gays and Lesbians Liechtenstein and Rhine Valley in 1998 and its president until 2008.