Based in Lille, northern France, Rick Mitchell reports and writes articles on a variety of topics ranging from risk management to business to biotechnology. With a masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he has worked as a reporter in a number of continents. He now writes for Business Insurance Europe (UK), ECPweb (US) and BNA (US).

Subjects familiar to Richard include biotechnology and food technology, healthcare and the life sciences, packaging and food labelling, telecommunications, risk anagement and insurance. He is accustomed to interviewing in English, French and Spanish.

Subject areas are:

- Risk management

- Insurance

- Information technology

- IT service and asset management

- Security and privacy law

- Food and biotechnology

- Healthcare/life sciences

- Packaging/labelling

- Electronics/telecommunications

- ICT/IST