Dr. Richard Brecht, Harvard Ph.D, is Co-Founder and Chief Language Officer of Jeenie. A University of Maryland Professor Emeritus, he also currently serves as co-director of the American Councils Research Center. As an academic entrepreneur, he has been essential in founding, building, and leading organizations across academe, government, business, NGOs, heritage and indigenous populations. Dr. Brecht has published and presented widely on language policy, second language acquisition, Slavic linguistics, and most recently on language and social justice. He has testified multiple times before Congressional committees and received numerous awards from national and international organizations in the language field.
