Richard Boly

Richard Boly is a former career U.S. diplomat and former Director of the Office of eDiplomacy,[1] an applied technology think tank for the U.S. Department of State.

Previously, he was a National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University,[2] where he launched the Global Entrepreneurship Program.

While working as the Embassy's economic and commercial attaché in Asuncion, he leveraged modest program funds to sponsor a seminar for local judges and prosecutors to demonstrate how Paraguayan copyright law could be applied to software piracy.

In his monograph "Commercial Diplomacy and the National Interest" (Business Council for International Understanding, 2004, 77–79) Harry W. Kopp details Boly's efforts to persuade Paraguayian judges and prosecutors to enforce Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Paraguay.

Managing change that sticks involves developing a common team language, shared productivity expectations and may require acceptance of interim setbacks while trending to success.

[14] Managing a team of diverse and confident tech creators, as well as the requisite group of experienced bureaucrats, offered Boly the opportunity to apply egalitarian communication to a previously stove-piped, status-fixated information environment.